Re: [RFC PATCH] macvlan: Introduce a PASSTHRU mode to takeover the underlying device

2010-11-02 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 11:19:13AM -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 10:28 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 03:19:38PM -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: With the current default macvtap mode, a KVM guest using virtio with macvtap

Re: [RFC PATCH] macvlan: Introduce a PASSTHRU mode to takeover the underlying device

2010-11-01 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 03:19:38PM -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: With the current default macvtap 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 guest

Re: [RFC PATCH] macvlan: Introduce a PASSTHRU mode to takeover the underlying device

2010-10-27 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 27 October 2010, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: With the current default macvtap 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 guest virtio-net - cannot

[RFC PATCH] macvlan: Introduce a PASSTHRU mode to takeover the underlying device

2010-10-26 Thread Sridhar Samudrala
With the current default macvtap 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 guest virtio-net - cannot enable promiscuous mode on guest virtio-net This patch