Re: [Qemu-devel] Guest bridge setup variations

2009-12-14 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Friday 11 December 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: Arnd Bergmann wrote: 3) given an fd, treat a vhost-style interface This could mean two things, not sure which one you mean. Either the file descriptor could be the vhost file descriptor, or the socket or tap file descriptor from

Re: [Qemu-devel] Guest bridge setup variations

2009-12-10 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote: While we go over all of these things one thing is becoming clear to me. We need to get qemu out of the network configuration business. There's too much going on here. Agreed. What I'd like to see is the following interfaces supported:

Re: [Qemu-devel] Guest bridge setup variations

2009-12-10 Thread Anthony Liguori
Arnd Bergmann wrote: 3) given an fd, treat a vhost-style interface This could mean two things, not sure which one you mean. Either the file descriptor could be the vhost file descriptor, or the socket or tap file descriptor from above, with qemu operating on the vhost interface itself.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Guest bridge setup variations

2009-12-09 Thread Anthony Liguori
Arnd Bergmann wrote: As promised, here is my small writeup on which setups I feel are important in the long run for server-type guests. This does not cover -net user, which is really for desktop kinds of applications where you do not want to connect into the guest from another IP address. I