Re: [Xen-devel] xen & MacVtap

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 02:58:03PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 06:44:05PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 06:22:06PM +0800, topperxin wrote:
> > > Hi list
> > >         As we all know, SR-IOV technology can improve VNIC's
> > >         performance, while it can not support live migration. I get
> > >         some information recently that on KVM+Virtio platform, if we
> > >         use MacVtap + SR-IOV, the live migration could be done
> > >         successfully. What I want to know is may I configure MacVtap
> > >         on Xen? 
> > >        Any replies are welcome! Thanks a lot.
> > 
> > AIUI MacVtap runs in emulation mode and connects to VirtIO to implement
> > the feature you want. That would mean you also need to use VirtIO
> > network driver for Xen's HVM domain, if you manage to configure MacVtap
> > for Xen.
> > 
> > Basically that means a configuration that nobody ever tried. Good luck.
> > :-)
> 
> Do you know what would be needed to make MacVtap run with Xen's drivers?

No idea. Never looked into it.

Wei.

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