Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266614AbUFWSro (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:47:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266613AbUFWSrn (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:47:43 -0400 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:42454 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266609AbUFWSr1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:47:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:27:27 +0200 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Vojtech Pavlik , Petr Vandrovec Cc: Christoph Hellwig , jbglaw@lug-owl.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miller@techsource.com Subject: Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness Message-ID: <20040623182727.GH10954@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20040622151236.GE20632@lug-owl.de> <20040622173215.GA6300@infradead.org> <20040622184220.GF20632@lug-owl.de> <40D99A93.8030900@techsource.com> <20040623150314.GA24169@infradead.org> <20040623160320.GA28370@vana.vc.cvut.cz> <20040623182613.GA1458@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040623182613.GA1458@ucw.cz> X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1032 Lines: 28 On 2004-06-23T20:26:13, Vojtech Pavlik said: > > vmnet module actually provides tun-like character device, but with several > > differences: > > * You can connect any number of userspace processes to it. > > * You can connect kernel end to nothing (complete guest-host separation), or > > These can be done purely in userspace - a daemon can exchange the data > between the processes (VMs). ... as UML already does it, anyway. I'm pretty sure the various methods UML uses are quite applicable to VM too. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br?e -- High Availability & Clustering \ ever tried. ever failed. no matter. SUSE Labs, Research and Development | try again. fail again. fail better. SUSE LINUX AG - A Novell company \ -- Samuel Beckett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/