/dev/vhost-net

[otroan]

Any reason why vhost-net couldn't be supported in Orbstack?
We have an application process that uses tap interfaces to create network interfaces between itself and the Linux machine.

[kdrag0n]

What's the use case? Happy to enable vhost-net if it's useful but I thought it was only for VMM network drivers. tun/tap is different, and OrbStack already supports that.

[otroan]

VPP uses vhost-net for a tap interface between itself and linux. (So not used for communication outside the guest).
https://git.fd.io/vpp/tree/src/vnet/devices/tap

veth interfaces work too, so no rush. Just that using tap is more convenient. :-)

[kdrag0n]

Added for the next version!

[otroan]

vhost-net and VPP tap interfaces works like a charm in 1.2.0-rc1.
Thanks a lot!