On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 04:22:07PM -0800, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 00:24 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > This adds support for vhost-net virtio kernel backend. > > > > This patch is not intended to being merged yet. > > I'm posting it for the benefit of people testing > > the backend. > > > > Usage instructions: > > vhost currently requires MSI-X support in guest virtio. > > This means guests kernel version should be >= 2.6.31. > > > > To enable vhost, simply add ",vhost" flag to nic options. > > Example with tap backend: > > qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1G disk-c.qcow2 \ > > -net tap,ifname=msttap0,script=/home/mst/ifup,downscript=no \ > > -net nic,model=virtio,vhost > > > > Example with raw socket backend: > > ifconfig eth3 promisc > > qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1G disk-c.qcow2 \ > > -net raw,ifname=eth3 \ > > -net nic,model=virtio,vhost > > As the vhost is a backend feature, i think the 'vhost' flag should > be added to the -net tap or -net raw option rather than the -net nic > which specifies the guest options. > > Thanks > Sridhar Yes. -- MST -- 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
