On 08/10/2010 07:12 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: >> You don't have to restart the guest to add or remove aliases: >> > yes I am aware of that, and that's why I'm wondering whether it is > better to use aliases rather than to add virtual interfaces (which > does require to restart guests with our KVM version, no hot-plug I > think). > > You said it backwards originally. You said that aliases required restarts. ;) > But is there any drawback with using aliases? > Or does using virtual interfaces provide additional performance/stability/... ? > I've never had issues with aliases. They 'just work'. I use hundreds of them. -- Benjamin Franz