[Lguest] More than one NICs in guest System

[Karl Meyer]

Indeed, it seems the naming is done by some udev rules (I am using
gentoo). Maybe the gentoo guys can help me on that.

The more efficient I/O stuff sounds great.
I am currently using a lguest-guest as adsl router on my storage
server (which is the host system) and my 6Mbit line is no problem for
this setup. For that I have to bridge the network connection to the
dsl modem to the guest system. Will the new virtio work change that?

Thanks for your great work on lguest!

Karl

2007/8/25, Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>:
> On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 12:24 +0200, Karl Meyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > then using lguest with more than one nic
> > Documentation/lguest/lguest 64m vmlinux --tunnet=192.168.254.10
> > --tunnet=192.168.200.1 --block=/dev/hdb1 root=/dev/lgba
> >
> > the second nic within the guest system is called eth1_rename, which is
> > not very practical.
>
> Hi Karl!
>
>         That seems like a guest OS problem to me: Ubuntu likes to rename
> devices, for example (see /etc/iftab).
>
> > What also would be interesting is if the guest system would be able
> > access a piece of the systems hardware directly and exclusivly. It
> > would be nice if I could attach one nic to the guest system and one to
> > the host system.
>
> Unfortunately, giving direct access to hardware breaks isolation: you
> can tell that card to dma to/from anywhere in memory 8(
>
> However, more efficient I/O is coming as part of the (multi hypervisor)
> virtio work: the plan is that lguest will get all the virtio drivers for
> free...
>
> Thanks,
> Rusty.
>
>