From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: xen & MacVtap Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:58:03 -0500 Message-ID: <20140108195803.GB16230@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <41ded77d.2bbc4.143715f985c.Coremail.topperxin@126.com> <20140108184405.GB13867@zion.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140108184405.GB13867@zion.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Wei Liu Cc: xen-devel , "xen-users@lists.xensource.com" , topperxin List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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?