Re: [Qemu-devel] idea: non-ethernet paravirtual network device

2011-07-26 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Sassan Panahinejad sas...@sassan.me.uk wrote: Here's a thought, could we improve network performance by creating a paravirtual network device which doesn't emulate ethernet? It shouldn't be too hard to just whack IP packets pretty much directly over a virtio

Re: [Qemu-devel] idea: non-ethernet paravirtual network device

2011-07-26 Thread Hannes Reinecke
On 07/26/2011 08:04 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Sassan Panahinejadsas...@sassan.me.uk wrote: Here's a thought, could we improve network performance by creating a paravirtual network device which doesn't emulate ethernet? It shouldn't be too hard to just whack IP

Re: [Qemu-devel] idea: non-ethernet paravirtual network device

2011-07-26 Thread Sassan Panahinejad
Ok, thanks guys. I don't think I'll proceed with this idea. Thanks Sassan On 26 July 2011 11:23, Hannes Reinecke h...@suse.de wrote: On 07/26/2011 08:04 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Sassan Panahinejadsas...@sassan.me.**uksas...@sassan.me.uk wrote: Here's

[Qemu-devel] idea: non-ethernet paravirtual network device

2011-07-25 Thread Sassan Panahinejad
Hi all, Here's a thought, could we improve network performance by creating a paravirtual network device which doesn't emulate ethernet? It shouldn't be too hard to just whack IP packets pretty much directly over a virtio link. This should improve performance when using a user host connection and