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From: "Ian C. Blenke" <ian@blenke.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] multiple VMs
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On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:06:06AM -0700, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> On the user space issue, I guess that's not completely true when it
> comes to networking? You have to be using the TUN/TAP driver.
> 
> I wonder if it would be of interest to embed a SOCKS proxy or something
> similar in QEMU. Then you could truly get by without having to use any
> special drivers in the host environment, since QEMU would use the
> sockets API for network communication instead of driver. You would have
> configuration to do within the image to make the networking apps use
> SOCKS though. It's a trade-off, but in those situations where you don't
> admin your own box, it could be the only option.

Something worth considering would be a PPP/SLIP connection via a
virtual serial device. 

If you do not have root privs on the host, you can always use a PPP/SLIP
emulator like TIA or SLiRP.

	http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SLIP-PPP-Emulator/

- Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com>