[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Does XEN use TUN/TAP interface?
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 17:50 +0100, Daniel Stodden wrote: > No. TUN/TAP is typically used for hosted VMs. Broadly speaking, it's > only useful if a significant part of the VMM is running in user mode on > top of a native Linux, as is the case with VMware Workstation, BTW: don't get me wrong: VMware isn't using TUN/TAP, just hosted. VirtualBox can use TUN/TAP, but the default vbox setup for a simple desktop VM is typically NAT. Via a custom kernel module, which does not create a dedicated host interface. Daniel -- Daniel Stodden LRR - Lehrstuhl fÃr Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation Institut fÃr Informatik der TU MÃnchen D-85748 Garching http://www.lrr.in.tum.de/~stodden mailto:stodden@xxxxxxxxxx PGP Fingerprint: F5A4 1575 4C56 E26A 0B33 3D80 457E 82AE B0D8 735B _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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