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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:40:01 -0700 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@....de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org, xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@...source.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 21/21] Xen-paravirt: Add the Xen virtual network device driver. Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.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 netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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