Re: Bridging with WLAN interface

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:55:14AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 03:26:27PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > When starting a HVM domU, with one NIC configured for bridge mode,
> > > I get both a tap and an xvif interface created in the dom0.
> > > 
> > > AFAICT, the xvif is unnecessary and unused; if this is the case,
> > > can we stop its creation?
> > 
> > Not easily; in fact you can have HVM domUs which uses PV drivers
> > for network and disk I/O.
> 
> Understood, and I wish I had such drivers, but if I wanted that
> wouldn't I specify as much in the config file (eg by not saying
> the device is in ioemu mode)?

I'm not fully sure how it's supposed to work in this case. At last for the
disk device you still want the ioemu device in order to boot, even
if you switch to a PV driver later.

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