Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] tun: export underlying socket

From: Or Gerlitz <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:17:14 +0300

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:07:25AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>   
>> vhost injects packets into physical device, what is the use case of vhost injecting packets into the host network stack?
>>     
> The case where the user requires bridging, typically.
>   
So you want to support a scheme where someone wants to attach vhost to a 
bridge? why not just telling these users to just set their vhost on top 
of veth couple, such that one veth device is added to a bridge as 
interface and a vhost instance is tied to the other veth device?

Or.