[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 00/41] Slirp Fixes and Enhancements - Reloaded

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> The foundation of this series are the patches from my previous posting
> that didn't make it into upstream. But while reworking them, the series
> grow far beyond the previous approach, adding lots of fixes and cleanups
> to the slirp stack and its interfaces.
>
> One major contribution is that the virtual IP addresses used inside
> slirp VLANs are now (almost) freely configurable. This enables
> sophisticated virtual network setups, specifically with guests that
> depends on specific addresses.
>
> In this second step, the series also comes with support for multiple
> slirp instances per VM. Further contributions are
>  - proper dynamic slirp cleanup during runtime
>  - 'info usernet' command to dump slirp connection states
>  - reworked monitor commands hostfwd_add/remove (formerly known as
>    host_net_redir)
>  - save/restore fixes for slirp
>  - first larger code cleanup (more work required...)
>  - various small fixes
>
> The patches have been successfully tested against basic use cases:
> connections to/from the guests, redirections, tftp, multi-instance,
> save/restore. Moreover, they also passed successfull build tests
> against mingw32.
>
> Regarding the preferred flow: Mark, will you let this go through your
> network tree first? Currently the series is based on upstream/master,
> but I can rebase if required.
>   

I don't want to do this through a git pull.  I'd rather take this into 
my queue.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori