From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bwpyq-00049g-0A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:29:28 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bwpyo-000493-6z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:29:27 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bwpyo-00048z-3p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:29:26 -0400 Received: from [66.93.216.237] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bwpub-0007fu-0m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:25:05 -0400 Received: from trouble.defaultvalue.org (omen.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB042410F for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:25:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Browning Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:24:43 -0500 Message-ID: <874qn24t78.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [Qemu-devel] Any interest in an option to use an existing tun/tap device? Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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 -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4