Does network traffic between Dom0 and a guest go over the wire?

Naoki naoki at valuecommerce.com
Wed Aug 16 16:42:10 UTC 2006


It creates a virtual interfaces which communicate via the bridge. None 
of the traffic ever reaches the actual ethernet adaptor and therefore it 
does not hit the wire.

http://www.shorewall.net/images/Xen1.png

Mark Wisner wrote:
>
> If I have a guest running on a Xen enabled system and I do network 
> traffic between the guest and Dom0, will the traffic go over the wire 
> or will
> the Dom0 stack route it to the guest bypassing the network interface?




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