On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 02:52:01PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Gregory Haskins wrote: > > >> Are you saying SRIOV is a requirement, and I can either program the > > >> SRIOV adapter with a mac or use promis? Or are you saying I can use > > >> SRIOV+programmed mac OR a regular nic + promisc (with a perf penalty). > > > > > > SRIOV is not a requirement. And you can also use a dedicated > > > nic+programmed mac if you are so inclined. > > > > Makes sense. Got it. > > > > I was going to add guest-to-guest to the test matrix, but I assume that > > is not supported with vhost unless you have something like a VEPA > > enabled bridge? > > > > If I understand it correctly, you can at least connect a veth pair > to a bridge, right? Something like > > veth0 - veth1 - vhost - guest 1 > eth0 - br0-| > veth2 - veth3 - vhost - guest 2 > > It's a bit more complicated than it need to be, but should work fine. > > Arnd <>< Heh, you don't need a bridge in this picture: guest 1 - vhost - veth0 - veth1 - vhost guest 2 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
