Bug#964812: linux: Pulling Google Compute Engine Virtual Ethernet Driver into Debian

[Zach Marano <zmarano@google.com>]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 15:28:43 +0200 Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi David
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 06:21:14PM +0000, David Awogbemila wrote:
> > Google would like to have its cloud networking driver, the Google
> > Compute Engine Virtual Ethernet driver (GVE) pulled into Debian
> > releases.
>
> I'm just working on this.  Is there a way for me to actually test it?  I
> assume I need to either specify some magic flag or be whitelisted to use
> this feature.
>
> Bastian
>
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>

Hey Bastian,

Yes there is a feature on the image resource which will (currently) enable the device instead of virtio-net. If you add the "GVNIC" guestOS feature to and image or disk resource it will do this. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-with-gvnic#manual-gvnic-setup

-- Zach