[Users] Configuring MTU

Nathan Stratton nathan at robotics.net
Fri Mar 30 15:58:39 UTC 2012


On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Livnat Peer wrote:

> On 29/03/12 22:16, Nathan Stratton wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to configure MTU on a guest by guest basis? All our bond
>> interfaces are configured as 9000 byte MTU, but we have a few guests
>> that don't support that and need 1500 byte setting.
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> There are patches in Gerrit for configuring the MTU on a Network basis.
> I hope these patches will be merged next week.

Great!!

> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#change,2207
>
> Any reason you want to configure it on a guest by guest basis and not on
> a network basis?

Sure, some of our VMs such as Acme Packet OSE have custom kernels and 
don't support jumbo frames.

-Nathan



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