Re: [Qemu-devel] windows xp under pclinuxos 2005

[Jan Marten Simons <marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de>]

Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Jan Marten Simons wrote:
>
>> I was asking for an integrated virtual FTP server (about 14 months 
>> ago). [snipped]
>
> My preference would be for an SMB server or NFS server fully 
> integrated in slirp.
>
> A fully integrated NFS server would be quite simple to implement but 
> it would not easily work with windows guests.
>
> At first glance, by looking at the smbfs code in the Linux kernel, an 
> SMB server compatible with Linux guests would be as easy to write as 
> an NFS server. But being compatible with Windows guests would be more 
> difficult and might lead to a rewrite of Samba !
>
> Regards,
>
> Fabrice.

I'm still thinking FTP would be a useful alternative as it's more 
low-level. There is hardly any OS with network capabilities with no FTP 
client availiable. Then the FTP server in qemu would only need to 
support a very basic set of features (no need for user management, 
either passive or active mode depending on what's easier to implement). 
Such a tiny server (I expect about 3k of source code) would not bloat 
qemu as much as reimplementing samba inside.
So I think that internal SMB and NFS servers are another nice idea but 
FTP is still the most common protocol (esp. for 'weird' guests).

With regards,
Jan