From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PULL REQUEST] merge latest upstream qemu networking bits
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:57:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257163025.3061.10.camel@blaa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AEEB62E.4090206@redhat.com>
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 12:36 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/28/2009 04:19 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > The most notable thing here is that all our networking changes are now
> > upstream - i.e. there are no longer qemu-kvm specific changes to
> > net.[ch], net-queue.[ch], savevm.c and hw/virtio-net.c
> >
> > This has resulted in one intentional regression - in order to use GSO,
> > you must now use '-netdev tap' rather than '-net tap'. We could continue
> > to support the latter, but it's never going upstream so we may as well
> > drop it now.
> >
> > Another regression is that virtio-net loses it's MAC address, but I've
> > just sent a fix for that to qemu-devel.
> >
>
> What does this mean? It loses the ability to set it?
Yep:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=3cbe04c44
Cheers,
Mark.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-02 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-28 14:19 [PULL REQUEST] merge latest upstream qemu networking bits Mark McLoughlin
2009-11-02 10:36 ` Avi Kivity
2009-11-02 11:57 ` Mark McLoughlin [this message]
2009-11-02 12:04 ` Avi Kivity
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