Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes)

Dmitry Fleytman writes: > On Aug 24, 2014, at 16:10 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> 24.08.2014 16:28, Dmitry Fleytman wrote: >> >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> I’m the maintainer of vmxnet3/pvscsi devices in QEMU. Thanks for CC’ing me. >> >> Maybe you can add yourself to MAINTAINERS file as well? :)

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes)

On Aug 24, 2014, at 16:10 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 24.08.2014 16:28, Dmitry Fleytman wrote: > >> Hi Michael, >> >> I’m the maintainer of vmxnet3/pvscsi devices in QEMU. Thanks for CC’ing me. > > Maybe you can add yourself to MAINTAINERS file as well? :) Yes, this should be done. How we d

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes)

24.08.2014 16:28, Dmitry Fleytman wrote: > Hi Michael, > > I’m the maintainer of vmxnet3/pvscsi devices in QEMU. Thanks for CC’ing me. Maybe you can add yourself to MAINTAINERS file as well? :) I dunno if that's actually needed, but at least this should stop "strain" patches like this to be sent

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes)

On Aug 24, 2014, at 15:06 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 20.08.2014 16:27, Ben Draper wrote: >> When running VMware ESXi under qemu-kvm the guest discards frames >> that are too short. Short ARP Requests will be dropped, this prevents >> guests on the same bridge as VMware ESXi from communicating.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes)

20.08.2014 16:27, Ben Draper wrote: > When running VMware ESXi under qemu-kvm the guest discards frames > that are too short. Short ARP Requests will be dropped, this prevents > guests on the same bridge as VMware ESXi from communicating. This patch > simply adds the padding on the network device i

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes)

Interestingly this does not appear to affect Windows guests on the same host/bridge as the ESXi guest, as Windows pads the frames before sending them out. However it does affect Linux guests on the same host/bridge from communicating with the ESXi guest itself and the guests ESXi hosts. -- *View

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmxnet3: Pad short frames to minimum size (60 bytes)

When running VMware ESXi under qemu-kvm the guest discards frames that are too short. Short ARP Requests will be dropped, this prevents guests on the same bridge as VMware ESXi from communicating. This patch simply adds the padding on the network device itself. Signed-off-by: Ben Draper --- hw/n