Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?

[Liraz Siri <liraz@turnkeylinux.org>]

Paul Brook wrote:

> Well, I'm not a great fan of kqemu to start with. I suspect it may end up 
> being removed sooner rather than later.

Yeah, kqemu only seems to be useful for users that can't use KVM due to
lack of hardware support.

> Networking is not a qemu specific feature. The first thing you need to do is 
> convince the kernel folks that this is a useful feature, and get it 
> implemented there. Then we can make qemu use that interface.
> What you've described sounds a lot like the pcap interface, which has its own 
> set of problems.
> 
> If your main argument is "users are too dumb to configure a bridge" then 
> you're arguing from a fairly weak position. The answer tends to be that you 
> need to make your configuration tools suck less.

Good point.

Cheers,
Liraz