We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 2.12.0 release. This release contains 2700+ commits from 204 authors.

If you used QEMU in the past, you are probably familiar with the -net command line option, which can be used to configure a network connection for the guest, or with with the -netdev option, which configures a network back-end. Yet, QEMU v2.12 introduces a third way to configure NICs, the -nic option.