On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > With the upcoming macvtap, we will want to open devices other than
> > /dev/net/tun but no longer need to call TUNSETIFF.
> >
>
> What are the names of these devices and how do you the character devices
> get crea
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
With the upcoming macvtap, we will want to open devices other than
/dev/net/tun but no longer need to call TUNSETIFF.
What are the names of these devices and how do you the character devices
get created in the first place?
This really isn't an "arbitrary" char device
With the upcoming macvtap, we will want to open devices other than
/dev/net/tun but no longer need to call TUNSETIFF.
This makes it possible to do 'qemu -net tap,ifname=/dev/tap/macvtap0'
to refer to a chardev in addition to the current way of doing
'qemu -net tap,ifname=tap0' to refer to a tap ne
