From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Plesner Jacobsen Subject: Re: Trouble understanding net config options Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:48:03 +0200 Message-ID: <20090715234803.GB2455@nerd.dk> References: <20090715231219.GZ2455@nerd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael Jinks , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Stephane Bakhos Return-path: Received: from irq.hestdesign.com ([212.97.207.97]:48178 "EHLO irq.hestdesign.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752750AbZGOXsF (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:48:05 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090715231219.GZ2455@nerd.dk> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:12:19AM +0200, Andreas Plesner Jacobsen wrote: > >> > >> I tried "fd=" instead of "name=", but that looks for a file descriptor > >> instead of a network interface name, and I didn't even know that Linux > >> had file descriptors for network interfaces let alone how to map them > >> to a tap. Nothing under /dev looks promising. > > > > You need to add a vlan option to one of them, for example vlan=2 > > Otherwise kvm will bridge the interfaces together, and it's going to > > create a packet storm. > > Not if the tap-interfaces are connected to different bridges. I'm sorry, I misunderstood your point. You're right. -- Andreas