On Fri, 25 May 2012 08:47:18 +0800 Zhi Yong Wu <zwu.ker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitul...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > On Fri, 25 May 2012 01:59:06 +0800 > > zwu.ker...@gmail.com wrote: > > > >> From: Zhi Yong Wu <wu...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > >> > >> 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.