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@@ -1460,6 +1460,7 @@ DEF("netdev", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_netdev,
#ifdef CONFIG_NETMAP
"netmap|"
#endif
+ "vhost-user|"
"socket|"
"hubport],id=str[,option][,option][,...]\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
STEXI
@@ -1791,6 +1792,23 @@ The hubport netdev lets you connect a NIC to a QEMU "vlan" instead of a single
netdev. @code{-net} and @code{-device} with parameter @option{vlan} create the
required hub automatically.
+@item -netdev vhost-user,chardev=@var{id}[,vhostforce=on|off]
+
+Establish a vhost-user netdev, backed by a chardev @var{id}. The chardev should
+be a unix domain socket backed one. The vhost-user uses a specifically defined
+protocol to pass vhost ioctl replacement messages to an application on the other
+end of the socket. On non-MSIX guests, the feature can be forced with
+@var{vhostforce}.
+
+Example:
+@example
+qemu -m 512 -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=512M,mem-path=/hugetlbfs,share=on \
+ -numa node,memdev=mem \
+ -chardev socket,path=/path/to/socket \
+ -netdev type=vhost-user,id=net0,chardev=chr0 \
+ -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0
+@end example
+
@item -net dump[,vlan=@var{n}][,file=@var{file}][,len=@var{len}]
Dump network traffic on VLAN @var{n} to file @var{file} (@file{qemu-vlan0.pcap} by default).
At most @var{len} bytes (64k by default) per packet are stored. The file format is
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