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

[Avi Kivity]

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
> > Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >     
> > > Why not keeping all the existing infrastructure, just locking a vlan
> > > against becoming more than a point-to-point link once some conflicting
> > > optimization was applied? That should be easy to implement and to
> > > explain to the user.
> > >   
> > >       
> > I still haven't seen a real life usecase for >2 terminals on a vlan.
> >
> >     
>
> Inter-VM linking e.g:
>
> qemu -net user -net nic -net socket,listen=...
> qemu -net socket,connect=...
>
>   

Hmm, okay.  But it's a bit sad to carry all that complexity for this.

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