From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49575) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMwsJ-0006rc-4k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:14:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMwsH-0000xD-DT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:14:39 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:42638) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMwsH-0000uD-64 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:14:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:14:27 +0000 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Message-ID: <20181114151427.GJ27120@redhat.com> References: <20181114123643.24091-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> <871s7nstle.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <874lcjra28.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <874lcjra28.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-3.2 00/41] RFC: slirp: make it again a standalone project List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: Thomas Huth , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marc-Andr=E9?= Lureau , renzo@cs.unibo.it, Jan Kiszka , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com, samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 03:46:39PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: > The issue I have with SLIRP isn't that it solves a useless problem (au > contraire!), it's that it's a useless solution. Okay, that's an unfair > exaggeration, it's not useless, I just wouldn't trust it in production, > unless it has improved significantly since I last looked at it. It's used by virt-builder, virt-customize, virt-v2v, etc., in some cases in production. Of course those uses are not completely general purpose (it'll be things like running very specific, known =E2=80=98yum i= nstall=E2=80=99 commands from the guest), and we test it quite a bit. Rich. --=20 Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rj= ones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top