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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:01:35 +0200
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@googlemail.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Jens Osterkamp <jens@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 08:53:55AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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?

Not with existing kernels, I think.

> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori