Inter-VM networking with FreeBSD under bhyve

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Wed Aug 21 16:00:47 UTC 2019


> Thanks for the replies, everyone.
> 
> > Do you have any desired parameters?
> > Performance Driven?  Simplicity?
> I failed to mention that.  I'm interested in performance, especially low
> CPU overhead.

Then a netmap based solution is probably in line with your goal.

> I had tried vale+tap on a stable/12 host, but it wouldn't pass traffic,
> so I started this thread as a feeler for what was expected to work on
> which branches.  Since then, I updated the host to head, and vale+tap works.
> 
> I'm very interested in vale+ptnetmap.  It seems to be partially
> committed to head, but not entirely.  Is that right?

I am not well informed as to the state of this.

> Thanks again.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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