Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/5] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends

2013-12-04 Thread Antonios Motakis
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 08:52:21PM +0100, Antonios Motakis wrote: > > In this patch series we would like to introduce our approach for putting > a > > virtio-net backend in an external userspace process. Our eventual target > is to > > run

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/5] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends

2013-12-04 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 08:52:21PM +0100, Antonios Motakis wrote: > In this patch series we would like to introduce our approach for putting a > virtio-net backend in an external userspace process. Our eventual target is to > run the network backend in the Snabbswitch ethernet switch, while receivi

[Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/5] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends

2013-11-29 Thread Antonios Motakis
In this patch series we would like to introduce our approach for putting a virtio-net backend in an external userspace process. Our eventual target is to run the network backend in the Snabbswitch ethernet switch, while receiving traffic from a guest inside QEMU/KVM which runs an unmodified virtio-