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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [RFC] import native vde support from qemu
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:59:36 -0500
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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
>
>