Re: [PATCH qemu-kvm] Add raw(af_packet) network backend to qemu

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On 01/28/2010 07:56 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
Now, the most important use case I see for the raw socket interface
in qemu is to get vhost-net and the qemu user implementation to
support the same feature set. If you ask for a network setup involving
a raw socket and vhost-net and the kernel can support raw sockets
but for some reason fails to set up vhost-net, you should have a
fallback that has the exact same semantics at a possibly significant
performance loss.

	Arnd
Makes sense. A simple reason you can't do vhost-net would be
that you are using tcg.

Some good arguments have been raised in this thread. I really don't like making our security depend on something external to qemu that is not widely used or understood.

That said, I'm not seeing a lot of great alternatives. I definitely like -net socket better than -net raw. In the absence of an extraordinarily clever solution, I think we may be stuck with doing this.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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