Re: Q on ioctl support in netfront/netback

[ravi kerur <rkerur@gmail.com>]

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Hi Konrad, Pasi

Thanks for your inputs. Looks like we(our team) needs to take a step back
and evaluate this and other things we have discovered in the past few days.
We will get back to you with more questions.

Thanks
-RK

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <
konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:19:14AM -0800, ravi kerur wrote:
> > Hi Konrad,
> >
> > Using PCI passthrough(I believe it is via config file changes) prevents
> > other domU's accessing the NIC correct? If I use it, would the network
>
> That is correct.
>
> > transmit/receive still happen via netfront/netback drivers?
>
> If you have two NICs, where one of them is PCI passthrough and
> the other dedicated to the guests, then the second can serve as
> netback/netfront.
>
> Thought I wonder if you can have the netback in the guest. This
> way you could fiddle with your registers in one domain, and export
> a network interface (vif) to the other guests from the domain that
> owns the PCI device.
>

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