From qemu's point of view these are still just tap devices, so there's
no reason they shouldn't work with vhost-net; as a matter of fact,
Raja Sivaramakrishnan <srajag00@yahoo.com> verified on libvir-list
that at least the qemu_command.c part of this patch works:

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-December/msg01314.html

(the hotplug case is extrapolation on my part).