Re: [Qemu-devel] Assigning an eth port to a guest VM

2015-06-17 Thread Yehuda Yitschak
> > > > Eric, Alex, Thank you very much for all your answers and details. > > From your answers it sounds like I need to extended vfio's resource query > > mechanism to enable flagging > > certain resources as NO_MAP and then make VFIO in QEMU act accordingly. > > That looks like the easier pa

Re: [Qemu-devel] Assigning an eth port to a guest VM

2015-06-16 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 11:21 +, Yehuda Yitschak wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Alex Williamson [mailto:alex.william...@redhat.com] > > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 21:32 > > To: Yehuda Yitschak > > Cc: Eric Auger; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Yuval Caduri; Shadi Ammouri > > Subje

Re: [Qemu-devel] Assigning an eth port to a guest VM

2015-06-16 Thread Yehuda Yitschak
> -Original Message- > From: Alex Williamson [mailto:alex.william...@redhat.com] > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 21:32 > To: Yehuda Yitschak > Cc: Eric Auger; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Yuval Caduri; Shadi Ammouri > Subject: Re: Assigning an eth port to a guest VM > > On Mon, 2015-06-15 at 17:

Re: [Qemu-devel] Assigning an eth port to a guest VM

2015-06-15 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2015-06-15 at 17:45 +, Yehuda Yitschak wrote: > > From: Alex Williamson > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 8:15 PM > To: Yehuda Yitschak > Cc: Eric Auger; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Yuval Caduri; Shadi Ammouri > Subject: Re: Assigning an eth port to a gu

Re: [Qemu-devel] Assigning an eth port to a guest VM

2015-06-15 Thread Eric Auger
On 06/15/2015 07:45 PM, Yehuda Yitschak wrote: > > > From: Alex Williamson > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 8:15 PM > To: Yehuda Yitschak > Cc: Eric Auger; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Yuval Caduri; Shadi Ammouri > Subject: Re: Assigning an eth port to a guest VM >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Assigning an eth port to a guest VM

2015-06-15 Thread Yehuda Yitschak
From: Alex Williamson Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 8:15 PM To: Yehuda Yitschak Cc: Eric Auger; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Yuval Caduri; Shadi Ammouri Subject: Re: Assigning an eth port to a guest VM On Mon, 2015-06-15 at 16:52 +, Yehuda Yitschak wrote: >>

Re: [Qemu-devel] Assigning an eth port to a guest VM

2015-06-15 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2015-06-15 at 16:52 +, Yehuda Yitschak wrote: > > From: Eric Auger > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 4:42 PM > To: Yehuda Yitschak; qemu-devel@nongnu.org > Cc: Yuval Caduri; Shadi Ammouri > Subject: Re: Assigning an eth port to a guest VM > > Hi Ye

Re: [Qemu-devel] Assigning an eth port to a guest VM

2015-06-15 Thread Eric Auger
Hi Yehuda, On 06/15/2015 06:52 PM, Yehuda Yitschak wrote: > > > From: Eric Auger > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 4:42 PM > To: Yehuda Yitschak; qemu-devel@nongnu.org > Cc: Yuval Caduri; Shadi Ammouri > Subject: Re: Assigning an eth port to a guest VM > > Hi

Re: [Qemu-devel] Assigning an eth port to a guest VM

2015-06-15 Thread Yehuda Yitschak
From: Eric Auger Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 4:42 PM To: Yehuda Yitschak; qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Yuval Caduri; Shadi Ammouri Subject: Re: Assigning an eth port to a guest VM Hi Yehuda, On 06/15/2015 01:01 PM, Yehuda Yitschak wrote: >> Cc: Eric Auger >>

Re: [Qemu-devel] Assigning an eth port to a guest VM

2015-06-15 Thread Eric Auger
Hi Yehuda, On 06/15/2015 01:01 PM, Yehuda Yitschak wrote: > Cc: Eric Auger > >> -Original Message- >> From: Yehuda Yitschak >> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 9:35 >> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org >> Cc: Yuval Caduri; Shadi Ammouri >> Subject: Assigning an eth port to a guest VM >> >> Hello >> >>

[Qemu-devel] Assigning an eth port to a guest VM

2015-06-15 Thread Yehuda Yitschak
Hello I would to ask your advice on how to assign a semi-virtualized Ethernet port to a guest VM The eth port's HW partially supports virtualization since the data path MMIO registers (which controls rx/tx operation) are duplicated per VM. So for the run-time operation the guest can directly a

Re: [Qemu-devel] Assigning an eth port to a guest VM

2015-06-15 Thread Yehuda Yitschak
Cc: Eric Auger > -Original Message- > From: Yehuda Yitschak > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 9:35 > To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > Cc: Yuval Caduri; Shadi Ammouri > Subject: Assigning an eth port to a guest VM > > Hello > > I would to ask your advice on how to assign a semi-virtualized Etherne