From: "Ian C. Blenke" <ian@blenke.com>
To: jhoger@pobox.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] multiple VMs
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 14:52:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040406185242.GA1040@fresh-install> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1081274766.31422.41.camel@aragorn>
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:06:06AM -0700, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> On the user space issue, I guess that's not completely true when it
> comes to networking? You have to be using the TUN/TAP driver.
>
> I wonder if it would be of interest to embed a SOCKS proxy or something
> similar in QEMU. Then you could truly get by without having to use any
> special drivers in the host environment, since QEMU would use the
> sockets API for network communication instead of driver. You would have
> configuration to do within the image to make the networking apps use
> SOCKS though. It's a trade-off, but in those situations where you don't
> admin your own box, it could be the only option.
Something worth considering would be a PPP/SLIP connection via a
virtual serial device.
If you do not have root privs on the host, you can always use a PPP/SLIP
emulator like TIA or SLiRP.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SLIP-PPP-Emulator/
- Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-06 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20040406132039.9896957552@dash.soliddesign.net>
2004-04-06 13:42 ` [Qemu-devel] multiple VMs Joe Batt
2004-04-06 13:57 ` Jamie Burns
2004-04-06 18:06 ` John R. Hogerhuis
2004-04-06 18:52 ` Ian C. Blenke [this message]
2004-04-06 21:23 ` John R. Hogerhuis
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