On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 05:42:06PM +0100, Vincenzo Maffione wrote: > This patch adds support for a network backend based on netmap. > netmap is a framework for high speed packet I/O. You can use it > to build extremely fast traffic generators, monitors, software > switches or network middleboxes. Its companion software switch > VALE lets you interconnect virtual machines. > netmap and VALE are implemented as a non-intrusive kernel module, > support NICs from multiple vendors, are part of standard FreeBSD > distributions and available in source format for Linux too. > > To compile QEMU with netmap support, use the following configure > options: > ./configure [...] --enable-netmap --extra-cflags=-I/path/to/netmap/sys > where "/path/to/netmap" contains the netmap source code, available at > http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ > > The same webpage contains more information about the netmap project > (together with papers and presentations). > > Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffi...@gmail.com> > ---
In the future, please include a changelog after the "---" line so reviewers know what to look for. I commented on v4, the strerror(error) code looks wrong, it should probably use the errno variable instead. Stefan
