[libvirt] [RFC] Proposal for introduction of network traffic filtering capabilities for filtering of network traffic from and to VMs

[Glennie Vignarajah]

Le 14/01/2010 vers 01:09, dans le message intitulé "Re: [libvirt] [RFC] 
Proposal for introduction of network traffic	filtering capabilities for 
filtering of network traffic from	and to VMs", Dimitrios Pendarakis(Dimitrios 
Pendarakis <dimitris at us.ibm.com>) a écrit:


Hi,

> Note that this is the case for the standard VMware ESX vSwitch. However,
> the Cisco Nexus 1000v,
> which is an optional virtual switch for ESX, does appear to provide (guest)
> VM firewall capabilities.


OpenVswitch project (http://openvswitch.org/) seems to provide the same thing 
for KVM, Xen and Virtualbox. This should be wonderfull if the VM based 
filtering is done using OpenVswitch capabilities...

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