It creates a virtual interfaces which communicate via the bridge. None
of the traffic ever reaches the actual ethernet adaptor and therefore it
does not hit the wire.
http://www.shorewall.net/images/Xen1.png
Mark Wisner wrote:
If I have a guest running on a Xen enabled system and I do network
traffic between the guest and Dom0, will the traffic go over the wire
or will
the Dom0 stack route it to the guest bypassing the network interface?