On 01/26/2010 02:40 PM, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
This patch adds raw socket backend to qemu and is based on Or Gerlitz's patch re-factored and ported to the latest qemu-kvm git tree. It also includes support for vnet_hdr option that enables gso/checksum offload with raw backend. You can find the linux kernel patch to support this feature here. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/150308Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala<s...@us.ibm.com>
See the previous discussion about the raw backend from Or's original patch. There's no obvious reason why we should have this in addition to a tun/tap backend.
The only use-case I know of is macvlan but macvtap addresses this functionality while not introduce the rather nasty security problems associated with a raw backend.
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