Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v6 17/20] virtio-net: enable virtio 1.0

[Cornelia Huck]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:10:04 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 02:25:19PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > virtio-net (non-vhost) now should have everything in place to support
> > virtio 1.0: let's enable the feature bit for it.
> > 
> > Note that VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 is technically a transport feature; once
> > every device is ready for virtio 1.0, we can move setting this
> > feature bit out of the individual devices.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <address@hidden>
> 
> So to use this with e.g. tun, you need to make tun device LE.
> I posted a kernel patch address@hidden
> with TUNSETVNETLE/TUNGETVNETLE ioctls to support it.
> 
> But you still need to call them in qemu, and disable virtio-1.0
> if not there.

I had planned on playing with this a bit, but didn't come around to
doing it. I'm afraid it will have to wait until next year.