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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:53:55 -0500
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Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
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	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
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	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@googlemail.com>
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Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> There are two reasons why I think this backend is important:
>
> - As an easy way to provide isolation between guests (private ethernet
>   port aggregator, PEPA) and external enforcement of network priviledges
>   (virtual ethernet port aggregator, VEPA) using the macvlan subsystem.
>   

Can't this all be done with tap and a bridge?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori