From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
"xen-users@lists.xensource.com" <xen-users@lists.xensource.com>,
topperxin <topperxin@126.com>
Subject: Re: xen & MacVtap
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:58:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140108195803.GB16230@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140108184405.GB13867@zion.uk.xensource.com>
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 06:44:05PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 06:22:06PM +0800, topperxin wrote:
> > Hi list
> > As we all know, SR-IOV technology can improve VNIC's
> > performance, while it can not support live migration. I get
> > some information recently that on KVM+Virtio platform, if we
> > use MacVtap + SR-IOV, the live migration could be done
> > successfully. What I want to know is may I configure MacVtap
> > on Xen?
> > Any replies are welcome! Thanks a lot.
>
> AIUI MacVtap runs in emulation mode and connects to VirtIO to implement
> the feature you want. That would mean you also need to use VirtIO
> network driver for Xen's HVM domain, if you manage to configure MacVtap
> for Xen.
>
> Basically that means a configuration that nobody ever tried. Good luck.
> :-)
Do you know what would be needed to make MacVtap run with Xen's drivers?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-08 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-08 10:22 xen & MacVtap topperxin
2014-01-08 12:27 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2014-01-08 13:18 ` David Vrabel
2014-01-09 3:30 ` topperxin
2014-01-09 3:07 ` topperxin
2014-01-08 18:44 ` Wei Liu
2014-01-08 19:58 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2014-01-08 20:03 ` Wei Liu
2014-01-09 3:52 ` topperxin
2014-01-09 12:14 ` Wei Liu
2014-01-10 8:54 ` topperxin
2014-01-10 10:31 ` Wei Liu
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