From: "Jesus M. Salvo Jr." <jesus.salvo@migasia.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Any interest in an option to use an existing tun/tap device?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:04:25 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41214B89.4030908@migasia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874qn24t78.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org>
Rob Browning wrote:
>It would be nice if qemu could be configured to use an existing
>tun/tap device rather than require root (or sudo) access. Would
>others be interested in such an addition, perhaps "qemu -tun tun0" or
>similar.
>
>User Mode Linux allows something similar. See the section "TUN/TAP
>with a preconfigured tap device" at
>http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/networking.html.
>
>Thanks
>
I thought it already does, via the -tun-fd option ... though I have not
seen an example of how to use this option / determine the file
descriptor of an existing tun/tap interface, so I dont know how to use
it as well. An example would be good.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-17 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-16 22:24 [Qemu-devel] Any interest in an option to use an existing tun/tap device? Rob Browning
2004-08-17 0:04 ` Jesus M. Salvo Jr. [this message]
2004-08-18 9:15 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-08-17 1:24 ` Rob Browning
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