From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: kvm networking todo wiki Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:38:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20101012173811.GA30997@redhat.com> References: <20100921161124.GC22845@redhat.com> <4C9A873E.6010403@us.ibm.com> <20100926112112.GB18408@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sridhar Samudrala , David Stevens , sri@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Anthony Liguori , Rusty Russell , Krishna Kumar2 , Shirley Ma , "Xin, Xiaohui" , jdike@linux.intel.com, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, lmr@redhat.com, akong@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mjt@tls.msk.ru To: Dragos Tatulea Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:32452 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757885Ab0JLRow (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:44:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 01:37:45PM +0200, Dragos Tatulea wrote: > Hi, > > > More importantly: anyone's going to work on this? > > I'd like to work on this. Might need some assistance though. > > Thanks, > Dragos BTW, as in some situations hardware might not be able satisfy requirements, a subset of this item would be to expose whatever macvtap is capable of, to the guest. E.g. if mac can not be changed we could at least query the mac, something that would be convenient as noted by mjt in an irc chat. To enable migration we'd then need a set of flags to limit this to a least common denominator on a given network. -- MST From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45315 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P5iu7-0001RY-3O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:44:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P5iu6-00064b-58 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:44:46 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:46270) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P5iu5-00064T-VA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:44:46 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:38:11 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20101012173811.GA30997@redhat.com> References: <20100921161124.GC22845@redhat.com> <4C9A873E.6010403@us.ibm.com> <20100926112112.GB18408@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: kvm networking todo wiki List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Dragos Tatulea Cc: Krishna Kumar2 , lmr@redhat.com, "Xin, Xiaohui" , Shirley Ma , akong@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell , mjt@tls.msk.ru, David Stevens , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, jdike@linux.intel.com, sri@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Sridhar Samudrala On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 01:37:45PM +0200, Dragos Tatulea wrote: > Hi, > > > More importantly: anyone's going to work on this? > > I'd like to work on this. Might need some assistance though. > > Thanks, > Dragos BTW, as in some situations hardware might not be able satisfy requirements, a subset of this item would be to expose whatever macvtap is capable of, to the guest. E.g. if mac can not be changed we could at least query the mac, something that would be convenient as noted by mjt in an irc chat. To enable migration we'd then need a set of flags to limit this to a least common denominator on a given network. -- MST