Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 20:25 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
I've two questions:
o what's the intended usage of all-vlan-equal case, when kvm (or qemu)
reflects packets from one interface to another? It's what bridge
in linux is for, I think.
I don't think it's necessarily an intended use-case for the vlan feature
o why different -net guest -net host pairs are not getting different
vlan= indexes by default, to stop the above-mentioned packet
storms right away? I think it's a wise default to assign different
pairs to different vlans, by counting -net host and -net guest
sequences.
With 0.12, we're going to be de-emphasising the vlan feature and instead
have NICs directly connected to host backends. The vlan feature will be
just another host backend, but optional
You'll start guests with e.g.:
-netdev tap,id=tap.0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=tap.0
Which is not necessarily more friendly to a user, but it lays the
foundation to be able to do a config file which in turns could be easily
generated from a nic GUI/command line tool.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
