Anno domini 2009 Daniel P. Berrange scripsit: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:06:48PM +0200, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote: > > Anno domini 2009 Daniel P. Berrange scripsit: That was a *really* _fast_ reply :) > > [...] > > > In the (nearish) future NICs will start appearing with SR-IOV capabilities. > > > This gives you one physical PCI device, whcih exposes multiple functions. > > > So a single physical NIC appears as 8 NICs to the OS. You can thus directly > > > assign each of these virtual NICs to a different VM directly,a voiding the > > > need to bridge them. > > > I don't think its worth spending too much time trying to come up with other > > > non-bridged NIC sharing setups when hardware is about todo it all for us :-) > > Is this hope or do you know about any timelime for this? > Hardware exists today & patches are avialable for upstream Linux. > http://lwn.net/Articles/308238/ Oh, nice. That went below my radar. > The question mark is more over how long it takes before the hardware is > widely available & shipped to consumers by vendors. *nod* Let's hope and see :) Thanks for the info! Ciao Max -- Follow the white penguin. -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list