Re: [libvirt] 802.1q vlan-tagging support for libvirt

[Maximilian Wilhelm <max rfc2324 org>]

Anno domini 2009 Daniel P. Berrange scripsit:

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> In the (nearish) future NICs will start appearing with SR-IOV capabilities.
> This gives you one physical PCI device, whcih exposes multiple functions.
> So a single physical NIC appears as 8 NICs to the OS. You can thus directly
> assign each of these virtual NICs to a different VM directly,a voiding the
> need to bridge them.

> I don't think its worth spending too much time trying to come up with other
> non-bridged NIC sharing setups when hardware is about todo it all for us :-)

Is this hope or do you know about any timelime for this?

Ciao
Max
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