Re: [PATCH v2] failover: specify an alternate MAC address

2021-11-07 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 09:14:51AM +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote: > On 01/11/2021 10:39, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 11:59:45AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote: > > > If the guest driver doesn't support the STANDBY feature, by default > > > we keep the virtio-net device and

Re: [PATCH v2] failover: specify an alternate MAC address

2021-11-02 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 09:14:51AM +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote: > On 01/11/2021 10:39, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 11:59:45AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote: > > > If the guest driver doesn't support the STANDBY feature, by default > > > we keep the virtio-net device and

Re: [PATCH v2] failover: specify an alternate MAC address

2021-11-02 Thread Laurent Vivier
On 01/11/2021 10:39, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 11:59:45AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote: If the guest driver doesn't support the STANDBY feature, by default we keep the virtio-net device and don't hotplug the VFIO device, but in some cases, user can prefer to use the VFIO

Re: [PATCH v2] failover: specify an alternate MAC address

2021-11-01 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 11:59:45AM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote: > If the guest driver doesn't support the STANDBY feature, by default > we keep the virtio-net device and don't hotplug the VFIO device, > but in some cases, user can prefer to use the VFIO device rather > than the virtio-net one. We

Re: [PATCH v2] failover: specify an alternate MAC address

2021-10-27 Thread Jason Wang
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 6:00 PM Laurent Vivier wrote: > > If the guest driver doesn't support the STANDBY feature, by default > we keep the virtio-net device and don't hotplug the VFIO device, > but in some cases, user can prefer to use the VFIO device rather > than the virtio-net one. We can't

Re: [PATCH v2] failover: specify an alternate MAC address

2021-10-27 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 10/27/21 11:59, Laurent Vivier wrote: > If the guest driver doesn't support the STANDBY feature, by default > we keep the virtio-net device and don't hotplug the VFIO device, > but in some cases, user can prefer to use the VFIO device rather > than the virtio-net one. We can't unplug the

[PATCH v2] failover: specify an alternate MAC address

2021-10-27 Thread Laurent Vivier
If the guest driver doesn't support the STANDBY feature, by default we keep the virtio-net device and don't hotplug the VFIO device, but in some cases, user can prefer to use the VFIO device rather than the virtio-net one. We can't unplug the virtio-net device (because on migration it is expected