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From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to use macvtap/macvlan correctly
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 20:46:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111002194616.GM14562@arachsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110930084935.GC12879@arachsys.com>

Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> writes:

> I'm trying to get bridge-mode communication between a macvtap and a host
> macvlan working correctly, but I think I must be doing something wrong as
> the host macvlan and guest macvtap apparently can't communicate. I'm aware
> that the underlying eth0 interface can't communicate with the macvtap, but I
> thought that creating a host macvlan device and configuring that was the
> standard work-around?

This turns out to be a bug in the kernel I'm using, 3.0.4, fixed by this
patch:

  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/115273/

Cheers,

Chris.

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From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to use macvtap/macvlan correctly
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 20:46:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111002194616.GM14562@arachsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110930084935.GC12879@arachsys.com>

Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> writes:

> I'm trying to get bridge-mode communication between a macvtap and a host
> macvlan working correctly, but I think I must be doing something wrong as
> the host macvlan and guest macvtap apparently can't communicate. I'm aware
> that the underlying eth0 interface can't communicate with the macvtap, but I
> thought that creating a host macvlan device and configuring that was the
> standard work-around?

This turns out to be a bug in the kernel I'm using, 3.0.4, fixed by this
patch:

  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/115273/

Cheers,

Chris.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-02 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-26 11:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RESEND] Fix SIGFPE race for vnc display resize Chris Webb
2011-09-30  8:49 ` How to use macvtap/macvlan correctly Chris Webb
2011-09-30  8:49   ` [Qemu-devel] " Chris Webb
2011-10-02 19:46   ` Chris Webb [this message]
2011-10-02 19:46     ` Chris Webb

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