On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:31:07PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote: > This adds a description about the 'direct' type of interface recently > added for macvtap device type support on the host. > >
> Index: libvirt-macvtap/docs/formatdomain.html.in > =================================================================== > --- libvirt-macvtap.orig/docs/formatdomain.html.in > +++ libvirt-macvtap/docs/formatdomain.html.in > @@ -674,6 +674,28 @@ > ...</pre> > > > + <h5><a name="elementsNICSDirect">Direct attachment to physical > interface</a></h5> > + > + <p> > + Provides direct attachment of the virtual machine's NIC to the given > + physial interface of the host. This setup requires the Linux macvtap > + driver to be available. One of the modes 'vepa', 'bridge' or 'private' > + can be chosen for the operation mode of the macvtap device, 'vepa' > + being the default mode. > + </p> > + > +<pre> > + ... > + <devices> > + <interface type='direct'/> > + ... > + <interface type='direct'> > + <source dev='eth0' mode='vepa'/> > + </interface> > + </devices> > + ...</pre> > + > + > <h5><a name="elementsNICSEthernet">Generic ethernet connection</a></h5> > > <p> ACK, though it might be nice to describe the difference between the modes 'vepa', 'bridge' or 'private' for people who are not so familiar with this support Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
