qemu + 802.1Q VLANs

[Lowell Gilbert]

Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> writes:

> Well, that would feed vlan11 into the qemu guest, right?
> What I need is to feed the whole trunk into the quemu guest,
> so I can do create the vlan interfaces within the guest.

That *would* be harder.  And any workarounds would be clunky.

> Would it work to bridge the whole (physical) trunk interface
> into the guest?  i.e. following your example:
> ifconfig bridge0 addm ti0 addm tap0 up

In theory, that makes sense.  In practice, it looks like it would take
a bit of work adapting the drivers.  Unfortunately, I don't have time
to think about it much at the moment.