[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH qemu-kvm] Add raw(af_packet) network backend to qemu

2010-01-29 Thread Sridhar Samudrala
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 14:56 -0800, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 22:39 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Anthony Liguori wrote: I think -net socket,fd should just be (trivially) extended to work with raw sockets out of the box, with no

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH qemu-kvm] Add raw(af_packet) network backend to qemu

2010-01-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 01/27/2010 12:52 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Anthony Liguori wrote: The raw backend can be attached to a physical device This is equivalent to bridging with tun/tap except that it has the unexpected behaviour of unreliable host/guest networking (which

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH qemu-kvm] Add raw(af_packet) network backend to qemu

2010-01-26 Thread Sridhar Samudrala
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 14:47 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH qemu-kvm] Add raw(af_packet) network backend to qemu

2010-01-26 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 01/26/2010 05:15 PM, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 14:47 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH qemu-kvm] Add raw(af_packet) network backend to qemu

2010-01-26 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Anthony Liguori wrote: The raw backend can be attached to a physical device This is equivalent to bridging with tun/tap except that it has the unexpected behaviour of unreliable host/guest networking (which is not universally consistent across platforms