[Qemu-devel] Re: Raw vs. tap

[Anthony Liguori]

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:53:56PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
> > I would be much more inclined to consider  
> > taking raw and improving the performance long term if guest<->host  
> > networking worked.  This appears to be a fundamental limitation though  
> > and I think it's something that will forever plague users if we include  
> > this feature.
> >     
>
> In fact, I think it's fixable with a raw socket bound to a macvlan.
> Would that be enough?
>   

What setup does that entail on the part of a user?  Wouldn't we be back 
to square one wrt users having to run archaic networking commands in 
order to set things up?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori