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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 9/9] Introduce VLANClientState::cleanup()
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>     
>>> Why not keeping all the existing infrastructure, just locking a vlan
>>> against becoming more than a point-to-point link once some conflicting
>>> optimization was applied? That should be easy to implement and to
>>> explain to the user.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I still haven't seen a real life usecase for >2 terminals on a vlan.
>>
>>     
>
> Inter-VM linking e.g:
>
> qemu -net user -net nic -net socket,listen=...
> qemu -net socket,connect=...
>
>   

Hmm, okay.  But it's a bit sad to carry all that complexity for this.

-- 
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