Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [patch 21/21] Xen-paravirt: Add the Xen virtual network device driver. | Date | Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:40:01 -0700 |
| |
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> writes:
> +++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig.net > @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ > +menu "Xen network device drivers" > + depends on NETDEVICES && XEN > + > +config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND > + tristate "Network-device frontend driver" > + depends on XEN > + default y > + help > + The network-device frontend driver allows the kernel to access > + network interfaces within another guest OS. Unless you are building a > + dedicated device-driver domain, or your master control domain > + (domain 0), then you almost certainly want to say Y here.
Am I reading this correctly I can directly use the network interface of another guest OS (no protection)?
I think this description is misleading, and probably say something about virtual hardware.
Eric - 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/
| |