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Subject: Re: RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3
On Tue, 4 May 2010 16:02:25 -0700
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Subject: Re: RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3
From: Pankaj Thakkar pthak...@vmware.com
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:18:57 -0700
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 04:02:25PM -0700, Pankaj Thakkar wrote:
The plugin image is provided by the IHVs along with the PF driver and is
packaged in the hypervisor. The plugin image is OS agnostic and can be loaded
either into a Linux VM or a Windows VM. The plugin is written against the
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Subject: Re: RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA
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Subject: Re: RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3
On 05/05/2010 02:02 AM, Pankaj Thakkar wrote
* Pankaj Thakkar (pthak...@vmware.com) wrote:
We intend to upgrade the upstreamed vmxnet3 driver to implement NPA so that
Linux users can exploit the benefits provided by passthrough devices in a
seamless manner while retaining the benefits of virtualization. The document
below tries to answer
