Re: Is QEMU's vmxnet3 still being used?

[Yan Vugenfirer]

Hi All,

I know it is used to develop DPDK support on Windows right now. 

Previously it was used for different nested virtualization scenarios as well.

Best regards,

Yan.

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 11:22 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 9:42 PM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
>   Hi all,
>
> I recently noticed that we have quite a bunch of tickets against the vmxnet3
> device in our bug trackers, which indicate that this device could be used to
> crash QEMU in various ways:
>
>   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues?state=opened&search=vmxnet3
>
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu?field.searchtext=vmxnet3
>
> Having hardly any knowledge about this device and its usage at all, I wonder
> how much it is still used out there in the wild?

I guess it might have been used for virt-v2v in the past.

But I'm not sure what's the status now.

Thanks

> If there are still many
> users of this device, is there anybody interested here in helping to get
> these crashes fixed in the near future? Otherwise, should we maybe rather
> mark this device as deprecated and remove it in a couple of releases? What
> do you think?
>
>   Thomas
>