On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:31:07PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:

This adds a description about the 'direct' type of interface recently added for macvtap device type support on the host.

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+ <h5><a name="elementsNICSDirect">Direct attachment to physical interface</a></h5> + + <p> + Provides direct attachment of the virtual machine's NIC to the given + physial interface of the host. This setup requires the Linux macvtap + driver to be available. One of the modes 'vepa', 'bridge' or 'private' + can be chosen for the operation mode of the macvtap device, 'vepa' + being the default mode. + </p> + +<pre> + ... + <devices> + <interface type='direct'/> + ... + <interface type='direct'> + <source dev='eth0' mode='vepa'/> + </interface> + </devices> + ...</pre> + + <h5><a name="elementsNICSEthernet">Generic ethernet connection</a></h5>

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ACK, though it might be nice to describe the difference between the modes 'vepa', 'bridge' or 'private' for people who are not so familiar with this support Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|