[RFC] import native vde support from qemu

[RFC] import native vde support from qemu

[Luca Bigliardi]

Hi!

Please can you consider to import in kvm-userspace the native vde support
from qemu (svn revision 4896) ?

This e-mail tries to explain a bit the current situation:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-07/msg00026.html


Thank you!

luca

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Re: [RFC] import native vde support from qemu

[Anthony Liguori]

Luca Bigliardi wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Please can you consider to import in kvm-userspace the native vde support
> from qemu (svn revision 4896) ?
>   

Out of curiosity, do you actually use VDE for distributed ethernet or 
just as an easy way to configure networking?

I actually liked the libpcap patch as a good trade-off of 
performance/easy of use.  I was under the impression that VDE is 
actually rather slow.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> This e-mail tries to explain a bit the current situation:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-07/msg00026.html
>
>
> Thank you!
>
> luca
>
>   

Re: [RFC] import native vde support from qemu

[Luca Bigliardi]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> Out of curiosity, do you actually use VDE for distributed ethernet or  
> just as an easy way to configure networking?

I use VDE daily even for non virtual-machine purposes like low bandwidth
vpns, ipv6 tunnel broker, network experiments (e.g.: wirefilter).

> I actually liked the libpcap patch as a good trade-off of  
> performance/easy of use.  I was under the impression that VDE is  
> actually rather slow.

If you want an easy way to configure networking then have pcap support (or
slirp) is definitively a better choice. What VDE gives you is flexibility.


Thank you for your reply.


luca

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Re: [RFC] import native vde support from qemu

[Avi Kivity]

Luca Bigliardi wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Please can you consider to import in kvm-userspace the native vde support
> from qemu (svn revision 4896) ?
>   

qemu-svn is merged regularly; there is no need to request this.

As it happens, I did a merge today, which of course includes the vde bits.

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