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From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH qemu-kvm] Add raw(af_packet) network backend to qemu
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:22:31 +0200
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Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 22:39 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> we already have -net socket,fd and any user that passes an fd into 
>> that already knows what he wants to do with it. Making it work with 
>> raw sockets is just a natural extension to this
> Didn't realize that -net socket is already there and supports TCP and UDP sockets. I will look into extending -net socket to support AF_PACKET SOCK_RAW type sockets
The original thought was that the -raw option will be integrated in a 
pass through manner, that is bypassing the qemu vlan (internal bridge). 
This will allow qemu to use the mac address of the SR-IOV (e.g HW VF, 
software macvlan) NIC as the mac delivered to the VM, in that sense it 
is pretty different from the -net socket option.

Or.