Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] net: hub-based networking

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Fri, 25 May 2012 08:47:18 +0800
Zhi Yong Wu <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 May 2012 01:59:06 +0800
> > address@hidden wrote:
> >
> >> From: Zhi Yong Wu <address@hidden>
> >>
> >> The patchset implements network hub stead of vlan. The main work was done 
> >> by stefan, and i rebased it to latest QEMU upstream, did some testings and 
> >> am responsible for pushing it to QEMU upstream.
> >
> > Honest question: does it really pay off to have this in qemu vs. using one 
> > of
> It's said that it can speed up packets delivery, but i have not do
> every bechmark testings.
> For more details, please refer to
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/133362
> > the externaly available solutions?
> Is there external available solutions?:), What are they? Open vSwitch?

I _guess_ that for non-linux unices we have only vde (do bsds have a tap
interface that can be used like we use it in linux?). For Linux we also vde,
openvswitch and macvtap in bridge mode.