Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 9/9] Introduce VLANClientState::cleanup()

[Avi Kivity]

Paul Brook wrote:
> > No one has complained yet to 
> > the best of my knowledge that you can't have more than one guest device
> > on a vlan in KVM.  This is simply because no one ever does it :-)
> >     
>
> I'm not so sure about that. I don't believe kvm is representative of qemu as a 
> whole. 

I agree with this, but...

> My guess is your typical kvm user cares more about netwroking 
> performance then they do about (for example) requiring root privileges to 
> instantiate virtual machines.
>   

In fact kvm discourages root privileges; that's why I like fd= options, 
and want them supported on the monitor (via SCM_RIGHTS).

> That said, I guess vlan functionality can be punted to something like vde.
>   

Yes please.

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