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...mechanism to virtio-net-ccw, it has to pass such failover > mode to virtio driver specifically through some other option I guess. Hm, I've just spent some time reading the Linux failover code and I did not really find much pci-related magic in there (other than checking for a pci device in net_failover_slave_pre_register). We also seem to look for a matching device by MAC only. What magic am I missing? Is the look-for-uuid handling supposed to happen in the host only? > >> > If libvirt already has the knowledge that it should manage the two as a > >> > couple, why do we need the group id (...

On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:06:07 -0700 Siwei Liu <loseweigh at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 4:48 AM, Cornelia Huck <cohuck at redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:57:11 -0700 > > Siwei Liu <loseweigh at gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Cornelia. With questions below, I > >> think you

The main motivation for this patch is to enable cloud service providers to provide an accelerated datapath to virtio-net enabled VMs in a transparent manner with no/minimal guest userspace changes. This also enables hypervisor controlled live migration to be supported with VMs that have direct attached SR-IOV VF devices. Patch 1 introduces a failover module that provides a generic interface for