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| author | Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com> | 2013-11-06 11:44:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> | 2013-12-09 13:33:19 +0100 |
| commit | 58952137b0b3e1c9e3ce718ed952c1baf8832652 (patch) | |
| tree | 10348a2f1a0fcf536d2b393ad716eaa4f696206a /qemu-options.hx | |
| parent | a1d22a367d5780c9553b2cd5a24f665534ce6ed6 (diff) | |
net: Adding netmap network backend
This patch adds support for a network backend based on netmap.
netmap is a framework for high speed packet I/O. You can use it
to build extremely fast traffic generators, monitors, software
switches or network middleboxes. Its companion software switch
VALE lets you interconnect virtual machines.
netmap and VALE are implemented as a non-intrusive kernel module,
support NICs from multiple vendors, are part of standard FreeBSD
distributions and available in source format for Linux too.
To compile QEMU with netmap support, use the following configure
options:
./configure [...] --enable-netmap --extra-cflags=-I/path/to/netmap/sys
where "/path/to/netmap" contains the netmap source code, available at
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
The same webpage contains more information about the netmap project
(together with papers and presentations).
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index eafc022ad0..af34483021 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -1407,6 +1407,12 @@ DEF("net", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_net, " Use group 'groupname' and mode 'octalmode' to change default\n" " ownership and permissions for communication port.\n" #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_NETMAP + "-net netmap,ifname=name[,devname=nmname]\n" + " attach to the existing netmap-enabled network interface 'name', or to a\n" + " VALE port (created on the fly) called 'name' ('nmname' is name of the \n" + " netmap device, defaults to '/dev/netmap')\n" +#endif "-net dump[,vlan=n][,file=f][,len=n]\n" " dump traffic on vlan 'n' to file 'f' (max n bytes per packet)\n" "-net none use it alone to have zero network devices. If no -net option\n" @@ -1421,6 +1427,9 @@ DEF("netdev", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_netdev, #ifdef CONFIG_VDE "vde|" #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_NETMAP + "netmap|" +#endif "socket|" "hubport],id=str[,option][,option][,...]\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL) STEXI |