From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] kvm: qemu: Handle tap fds with IFF_VNET_HDR Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:24:30 +0300 Message-ID: <48A30ABE.3040903@qumranet.com> References: <1218485535-877-1-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com> <48A1957C.4070007@qumranet.com> <1218638393.29159.38.camel@muff> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Mark McLoughlin Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:29190 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756507AbYHMQYc (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:24:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1218638393.29159.38.camel@muff> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Mark McLoughlin wrote: > Okay, I've just sent a patch to add TUNGETIFF: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121863813904363 > > See below patch for how we'd use it. Don't apply this until the kernel > patch is accepted, obviously. > > Please repost once that's in. > The -help string is what libvirt would use to detect whether qemu has > support for this; clearly libvirt would also need to detect the > availability of TUNGETIFF in the running kernel. > > Neat trick. It would be nice to have a formal qemu capabilities query, like we have for kvm (and a proper forwards and backwards compatible qemu monitor protocol, and...) -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function