From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MM2Yn-0003JK-5S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:21:25 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MM2Yh-0003FD-Tu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:21:23 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37318 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MM2Yh-0003F7-Qw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:21:19 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:56190) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MM2Yh-0001MD-Cj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:21:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:21:15 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: add raw backend Message-ID: <20090701162115.GA4555@shareable.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Or Gerlitz Cc: Herbert Xu , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Or Gerlitz wrote: > Add raw network backend option which uses a packet socket to provide > raw networking access. Once the socket is opened its bouned to a > provided host interface, such that packets received on the interface > are delivered to the VM and packets sent by the VM are sent to the > interface. It looks like it would be functionally identical to the pcap network backend, with the same advantages and problems, but one less dependency on an external library (and removes any compatibility with ancient kernels that are in libpcap, but QEMU doesn't work on them anyway). -- Jamie