Re: Raw vs. tap (was: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0)

2009-10-15 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 17:53 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: So at this point, I think it's a mistake to include raw socket support. If the goal is to improve networking usability such that it just works as a root user, let's incorporate a default network script that creates a bridge or

Re: Raw vs. tap (was: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0)

2009-10-15 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
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

Raw vs. tap (was: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0)

2009-10-14 Thread Anthony Liguori
Sridhar Samudrala wrote: Can't we bind the raw socket to the tap interface instead of the physical interface and allow the bridge config to work. But why use the raw interface instead of tap directly. Let me summarize the discussion so far: Raw sockets Pros: o User specifies a network