Re: [Xen-devel] Does XEN use TUN/TAP interface?

[Daniel Stodden <stodden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 17:50 +0100, Daniel Stodden wrote:

> No. TUN/TAP is typically used for hosted VMs. Broadly speaking, it's
> only useful if a significant part of the VMM is running in user mode on
> top of a native Linux, as is the case with VMware Workstation,

BTW: don't get me wrong: VMware isn't using TUN/TAP, just hosted.
VirtualBox can use TUN/TAP, but the default vbox setup for a simple
desktop VM is typically NAT. Via a custom kernel module, which does not
create a dedicated host interface.

Daniel

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