Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes)

2014-08-25 Thread Markus Armbruster
Dmitry Fleytman dmi...@daynix.com writes: On Aug 24, 2014, at 16:10 PM, Michael Tokarev m...@tls.msk.ru wrote: 24.08.2014 16:28, Dmitry Fleytman wrote: Hi Michael, I’m the maintainer of vmxnet3/pvscsi devices in QEMU. Thanks for CC’ing me. Maybe you can add yourself to MAINTAINERS

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes)

2014-08-24 Thread Michael Tokarev
20.08.2014 16:27, Ben Draper wrote: When running VMware ESXi under qemu-kvm the guest discards frames that are too short. Short ARP Requests will be dropped, this prevents guests on the same bridge as VMware ESXi from communicating. This patch simply adds the padding on the network device

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes)

2014-08-24 Thread Dmitry Fleytman
On Aug 24, 2014, at 15:06 PM, Michael Tokarev m...@tls.msk.ru wrote: 20.08.2014 16:27, Ben Draper wrote: When running VMware ESXi under qemu-kvm the guest discards frames that are too short. Short ARP Requests will be dropped, this prevents guests on the same bridge as VMware ESXi from

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes)

2014-08-24 Thread Michael Tokarev
24.08.2014 16:28, Dmitry Fleytman wrote: Hi Michael, I’m the maintainer of vmxnet3/pvscsi devices in QEMU. Thanks for CC’ing me. Maybe you can add yourself to MAINTAINERS file as well? :) I dunno if that's actually needed, but at least this should stop strain patches like this to be sent to

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes)

2014-08-24 Thread Dmitry Fleytman
On Aug 24, 2014, at 16:10 PM, Michael Tokarev m...@tls.msk.ru wrote: 24.08.2014 16:28, Dmitry Fleytman wrote: Hi Michael, I’m the maintainer of vmxnet3/pvscsi devices in QEMU. Thanks for CC’ing me. Maybe you can add yourself to MAINTAINERS file as well? :) Yes, this should be done.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes)

2014-08-22 Thread Ben Draper
Interestingly this does not appear to affect Windows guests on the same host/bridge as the ESXi guest, as Windows pads the frames before sending them out. However it does affect Linux guests on the same host/bridge from communicating with the ESXi guest itself and the guests ESXi hosts. --

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes)

2014-08-20 Thread Ben Draper
When running VMware ESXi under qemu-kvm the guest discards frames that are too short. Short ARP Requests will be dropped, this prevents guests on the same bridge as VMware ESXi from communicating. This patch simply adds the padding on the network device itself. Signed-off-by: Ben Draper