Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> writes: > Please excuse the attention-grabbing subject.
Again. [...] > So, to make use of QEMU's netmap backend (CONFIG_NETMAP), you have to > build and install netmap software from sources. Which pretty much CONFIG_VDE seems to be similarly cumbersome to build-test. > ensures nobody uses it. It was added in commit 58952137b0b (Nov 2013). [...] The vde backend was added in commit 8a16d273887 (Jul 2008). The commit message blames it on Luca Bigliardi. Julia (cc'ed) fixed a bug in 2018. Can't see any other VDE-specific activity since we split net/vde.c off net.c in 2009. I found a github repository virtualsquare/vde-2, which seems to be pertinent. Recent commits have been merged by danieli...@users.noreply.github.com, which looks anti-social enough to me not to bother with a cc. Further digging coughed up Renzo Davoli (cc'ed). [...] > Why is the QEMU netmap backend worth keeping? > > Who is using the netmap backend? > > How do they obtain a netmap-enabled QEMU? Compile it from sources > themselves? > > Would it make sense to have netmap packaged in common Linux distros? Same questions for the QEMU vde backend.
