From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BG4pO-0000J4-4v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:38:58 -0400 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BG4op-00007k-EU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:38:55 -0400 Received: from [216.254.0.205] (helo=mail5.speakeasy.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1BG4oo-00006r-Gh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:38:22 -0400 Received: from dsl081-088-222.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO lhosts) ([64.81.88.222]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Apr 2004 23:38:20 -0000 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] User mode only network progress From: "John R. Hogerhuis" In-Reply-To: <4085ABA7.7010403@bellard.org> References: <000701c41cbf$49b386d0$0401a8c0@putte2k> <4074604D.6030201@bellard.org> <1081989718.17780.10.camel@bach> <407F0042.7090407@bellard.org> <4085ABA7.7010403@bellard.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1082504326.22289.60.camel@aragorn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:38:46 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: jhoger@pobox.com, 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 Well I think this is pretty exciting. Won't this make QEMU the first fully functional completely user mode PC emulator? I say fully functional meaning that without TCP/IP networking going I don't consider a modern OS fully functional. I'll have to try this soon :-))) I think the DHCP server is a good idea but in my opinion the way VmWare runs a bunch of servers that interfere with others (such as its Samba server) is actually one of its weak points in my book. It loses a lot of simplicity points there. Perhaps any built-in DHCP server should autodetect other DHCP servers and disable itself (unless the user forces it to come up with a command line option) if it detects another DHCP server on the network? Just a thought. -- John. On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 16:00, Fabrice Bellard wrote: > Hi, > > I finally had a few hours to work on the user mode network and I was > able to set up my first TCP connections and DNS requests. I still have > to make some cosmetics changes, but it works now at least for a Linux host. > > I added an ARP protocol layer so that the guest OS can really see an > ethernet network. I still have to add a simple DHCP server code to have > an automatic network installation in most guest OSes. > > Some people may be interested by a virtual PPP link via a virtual modem > on the virtual serial port... but I won't implement it :-) > > Fabrice. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > >