On Monday 18 April 2011, Asias He wrote: > (1) Is it possible to add an interface to macvtap like /dev/net/tun, > eg, /dev/net/macvtap. Currently, it is hard to use macvtap programmatically. I decided against having a multiplexor device because it makes permission handling rather hard. One chardev per network interface makes it possible to handle permissions in multiuser setups. > (2) Adding another macvlan device(e.g., macvlan0) to the hardware > interface(e.g., eth0) and using it as the old eth0 make the process of > using macvtap complicate. One has to reconfigure the network. This is > not optimal from the user perspective. Is it possible to leave the > low-level device as is when using the macvtap device? Only in VEPA mode. Note that a similar restriction applies when using the bridge device, for the same technical reasons. Arnd -- 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
