From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:10:50 -0700 > With the current default 'vepa' mode, a KVM guest using virtio with > macvtap backend has the following limitations. > - cannot change/add a mac address on the guest virtio-net > - cannot create a vlan device on the guest virtio-net > - cannot enable promiscuous mode on guest virtio-net > > To address these limitations, this patch introduces a new mode called > 'passthru' when creating a macvlan device which allows takeover of the > underlying device and passing it to a guest using virtio with macvtap > backend. > > Only one macvlan device is allowed in passthru mode and it inherits > the mac address from the underlying device and sets it in promiscuous > mode to receive and forward all the packets. > > Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@xxxxxxxxxx> Applied, thanks Sridhar. -- 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
