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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>,
	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add pcap-based host network bridge
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 22:45:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905122245.47730.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090512154838.GI21463@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

On Tuesday 12 May 2009, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:23:43AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > We basically dropped the idea as it turned out that - at least under
> > Linux - there is no host<->guest link realizable with reasonable effort.
>
> Has anyone ever looked at how vmware's vmnet does it?

I haven't actually looked at it, but my understanding was it involves a kernel 
module that effectively duplicates the existing bridge functionality.

Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-12 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-18  9:33 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add pcap-based host network bridge Jan Kiszka
2009-03-22 20:38 ` Robert Riebisch
2009-03-22 21:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Sebastian Herbszt
2009-03-24 17:21   ` Jan Kiszka
2009-03-23  2:23 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-03-24 17:28   ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-03-28 17:26     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-11 21:30       ` [Qemu-devel] " Sebastian Herbszt
2009-05-12  8:23         ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-05-12 15:48           ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-05-12 16:34             ` Jan Kiszka
2009-05-12 17:09               ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-05-12 21:45             ` Paul Brook [this message]
2009-05-12 21:17           ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-05-20 17:43             ` Consul
2009-05-28 20:50               ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-05-28 21:52                 ` Consul
2009-06-06 17:13                   ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-06-06 18:40                     ` Alex
2009-06-08 21:27                       ` Consul
2009-06-09 20:13                         ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-06-09 21:49                           ` Consul
2009-06-10 21:39                             ` Sebastian Herbszt

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