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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Raw vs. tap
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Jens Osterkamp <jens@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:53:56PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> I would be much more inclined to consider  
>> taking raw and improving the performance long term if guest<->host  
>> networking worked.  This appears to be a fundamental limitation though  
>> and I think it's something that will forever plague users if we include  
>> this feature.
>>     
>
> In fact, I think it's fixable with a raw socket bound to a macvlan.
> Would that be enough?
>   

What setup does that entail on the part of a user?  Wouldn't we be back 
to square one wrt users having to run archaic networking commands in 
order to set things up?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori