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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add pcap-based host network bridge
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 22:45:46 +0100
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Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@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