Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Introduce 'passthru' mode to takeover the underlying device

2010-11-22 Thread David Miller
From: Sridhar Samudrala s...@us.ibm.com Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:10:50 -0700 With the current default 'vepa' mode, a KVM guest using virtio with macvtap backend has the following limitations. - cannot change/add a mac address on the guest virtio-net - cannot create a vlan device on the

Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Introduce 'passthru' mode to takeover the underlying device

2010-10-31 Thread Sridhar Samudrala
On 10/29/2010 6:45 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Friday 29 October 2010, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: With the current default 'vepa' mode, a KVM guest using virtio with macvtap backend has the following limitations. - cannot change/add a mac address on the guest virtio-net I believe this could be

Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Introduce 'passthru' mode to takeover the underlying device

2010-10-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 03:45:17PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Friday 29 October 2010, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: With the current default 'vepa' mode, a KVM guest using virtio with macvtap backend has the following limitations. - cannot change/add a mac address on the guest virtio-net

Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Introduce 'passthru' mode to takeover the underlying device

2010-10-30 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 03:45:17PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Friday 29 October 2010, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: With the current default 'vepa' mode, a KVM guest using virtio with macvtap backend has the following limitations. - cannot change/add a mac address on the guest virtio-net

Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Introduce 'passthru' mode to takeover the underlying device

2010-10-29 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Friday 29 October 2010, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: With the current default 'vepa' mode, a KVM guest using virtio with macvtap backend has the following limitations. - cannot change/add a mac address on the guest virtio-net I believe this could be changed if there is a neeed, but I actually