Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio interaction with the physical device

2016-08-16 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:08:09AM +0530, Gadre Nayan wrote: > I was trying to understand the flow of packets from the Guest OS to my > NIC card, while using the Virtio paravirtualized drivers. (Qemu is not > emulating the NIC) QEMU always emulates paravirtualized NICs to some extent. Why do you

[Qemu-devel] Virtio interaction with the physical device

2016-08-15 Thread Gadre Nayan
Hi, I was trying to understand the flow of packets from the Guest OS to my NIC card, while using the Virtio paravirtualized drivers. (Qemu is not emulating the NIC) THis is as far as I have understood: { THe guest OS starts with a virtio nic: -net nic,model=virtio -net user -redir tcp:::22 A