On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:27:35AM -0700, Ira W. Snyder wrote: > I haven't studied vhost-net very carefully yet. As soon as I saw the > copy_(to|from)_user() I stopped reading, because it seemed useless for > my case. I'll look again and try to find where vhost-net supports > setting MAC addresses and other features. vhost net doesn't do this at all. You bind raw socket to a network device, and program that with usual userspace interfaces. > Also, in my case I'd like to boot Linux with my rootfs over NFS. Is > vhost-net capable of this? > > I've had Arnd, BenH, and Grant Likely (and others, privately) contact me > about devices they are working with that would benefit from something > like virtio-over-PCI. I'd like to see vhost-net be merged with the > capability to support my use case. There are plenty of others that would > benefit, not just myself. > > I'm not sure vhost-net is being written with this kind of future use in > mind. I'd hate to see it get merged, and then have to change the ABI to > support physical-device-to-device usage. It would be better to keep > future use in mind now, rather than try and hack it in later. I still need to think your usage over. I am not so sure this fits what vhost is trying to do. If not, possibly it's better to just have a separate driver for your device. > Thanks for the comments. > Ira -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
