From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:53:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4AD5D7F3.10105@codemonkey.ws> References: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> <200910081555.40897.jens@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4ACDF550.1020502@codemonkey.ws> <200910141509.28325.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jens Osterkamp , Anthony Liguori , kvm-devel , Paul Brook , Or Gerlitz To: Arnd Bergmann Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]:29838 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756763AbZJNN4B (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:56:01 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so1396340fgg.1 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:54:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200910141509.28325.arnd@arndb.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Arnd Bergmann wrote: > There are two reasons why I think this backend is important: > > - As an easy way to provide isolation between guests (private ethernet > port aggregator, PEPA) and external enforcement of network priviledges > (virtual ethernet port aggregator, VEPA) using the macvlan subsystem. > Can't this all be done with tap and a bridge? Regards, Anthony Liguori From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1My4J2-0002JS-70 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:54:20 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1My4Ix-0002Ar-N9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:54:19 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33050 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1My4Ix-0002Ac-I6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:54:15 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]:37668) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1My4Ix-0004xn-4s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:54:15 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so3273304fga.10 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:54:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AD5D7F3.10105@codemonkey.ws> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:53:55 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0 References: <4AC29E4D.80707@us.ibm.com> <200910081555.40897.jens@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4ACDF550.1020502@codemonkey.ws> <200910141509.28325.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <200910141509.28325.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Anthony Liguori , kvm-devel , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Or Gerlitz , Paul Brook , Jens Osterkamp Arnd Bergmann wrote: > There are two reasons why I think this backend is important: > > - As an easy way to provide isolation between guests (private ethernet > port aggregator, PEPA) and external enforcement of network priviledges > (virtual ethernet port aggregator, VEPA) using the macvlan subsystem. > Can't this all be done with tap and a bridge? Regards, Anthony Liguori