From: Luca Bigliardi <shammash@artha.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] import native vde support from qemu
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:55:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080721005503.GA7922@pintsize> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4883B548.5060909@codemonkey.ws>
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Out of curiosity, do you actually use VDE for distributed ethernet or
> just as an easy way to configure networking?
I use VDE daily even for non virtual-machine purposes like low bandwidth
vpns, ipv6 tunnel broker, network experiments (e.g.: wirefilter).
> I actually liked the libpcap patch as a good trade-off of
> performance/easy of use. I was under the impression that VDE is
> actually rather slow.
If you want an easy way to configure networking then have pcap support (or
slirp) is definitively a better choice. What VDE gives you is flexibility.
Thank you for your reply.
luca
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-20 19:14 [RFC] import native vde support from qemu Luca Bigliardi
2008-07-20 21:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-21 0:55 ` Luca Bigliardi [this message]
2008-07-21 8:13 ` Avi Kivity
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