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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding a tftpd to slirp
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Magnus Damm wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to transfer files from my host to the virtual environment
> in a simple and fast way. With as little dependencies as possible. Right
> now I'm using uuencode and uudecode over the serial port, it works but
> it is waaay too slow.
> 
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to add a tftpd besides the bootp/dhcp server?
> That would provide a simple way to get files from the host.
> (Yes, and think etherboot, pxe, u-boot...)
> 
> If the maintainers think it is a good idea, then I would be happy to
> modify netkit-tftpd to work with slirp.

I would prefer FTP. FTP clients are available for every OSes with good 
user interface and the FTP protocol is almost as simple as TFTP.

Fabrice.