On Friday 02 March 2012 03:51:52 Alexey Eromenko wrote: > I have looked at competitors product documentation (Parallels > Workstation), and they fully document VT-d as yet another network > mode. > Conceptually I fully agree with their approach. > > VirtualBox has 3 levels of network access: > 1. NAT (layer-3), uses your host's TCP/IP stack. (default) > 2. Bridge (layer-2), uses your host's Ethernet driver. (bypasses > host's TCP/IP stack) > 3. VT-d (layer-1), uses your host's Network Hardware. (bypasses host's > TCP/IP stack *and* host OS hardware [Ethernet] drivers).
VT-d is rather a hardware feature but no network mode but I get what you mean. > =========================== > I would like to ask the possibility of doing the same for VirtualBox. > (i.e. adding VT-d to "Chapter 6. Virtual networking") > > I'm unable to help this time, due to lack of VT-d hardware. PCI device passthrough is still very experimental. At the moment I doubt that passing through a network card to a VirtualBox guest will work reliably. And ATM I think this would be another interesting technical feature with limited value. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Senior Manager Software Development Desktop Virtualization, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven
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