23:54:57 <jayjwa> What should be my netdev device I give to Qemu? I tried -netdev tap,ifname=vnic1,id=net0,script=no,downscript=no but it didn't work. It dropped a tap0 (???) and deleted my default route.  
23:55:10 <jayjwa> I'd like it to use vnic1, which already is set up.