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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking
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To: Zhi Yong Wu <zwu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, pbonzini@redhat.com

On Fri, 25 May 2012 08:47:18 +0800
Zhi Yong Wu <zwu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 May 2012 01:59:06 +0800
> > zwu.kernel@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >> From: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>
> >> The patchset implements network hub stead of vlan. The main work was done by stefan, and i rebased it to latest QEMU upstream, did some testings and am responsible for pushing it to QEMU upstream.
> >
> > Honest question: does it really pay off to have this in qemu vs. using one of
> It's said that it can speed up packets delivery, but i have not do
> every bechmark testings.
> For more details, please refer to
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/133362
> > the externaly available solutions?
> Is there external available solutions?:), What are they? Open vSwitch?

I _guess_ that for non-linux unices we have only vde (do bsds have a tap
interface that can be used like we use it in linux?). For Linux we also vde,
openvswitch and macvtap in bridge mode.