From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52072) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbaS1-0007S6-BF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 17:10:58 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbaRy-0003Tj-4O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 17:10:57 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([141.255.128.1]:34896) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cbaRx-0003TR-TX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2017 17:10:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 23:10:50 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault Message-ID: <20170208221050.GP2955@var.home> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] libslirp and QEMU slirp List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: renzo@cs.unibo.it, virtualsquare@cs.unibo.it, thuth@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, Jan Kiszka , peter.maydell@linaro.org, qemu-devel Hello, Stefan Hajnoczi, on Mon 06 Feb 2017 11:55:05 +0000, wrote: > I'm proposing this topic for discussion because there might be common > ground for Samuel from QEMU and the VDE folks to collaborate. > > Samuel: Should QEMU join forces with libslirp? Well, there are not that many forces from the QEMU side :) Personally, I'm fine with seeing slirp move to a separate playground that qemu would depend on and others could contribute to. It just needs to be integrated to distros so that qemu can get it. That being said, the integration of slirp and qemu is not so loose, notably on the top of my head: - we are using timers for icmp announcements - qemu needs to be able to save/restore state, with compatibility with previous versions We'd need to see how that can be expressed as a library. Samuel