From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EMW9U-0005Wi-Dx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:39:08 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EMW9S-0005WF-Pp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:39:08 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EMW4Z-0002zc-TO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:34:03 -0400 Received: from [64.233.182.192] (helo=nproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EMVtq-0005Cq-SU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:22:59 -0400 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id n15so171009nfc for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46d6db660510031222y70cb7257u7f32f823474c8917@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:22:57 +0200 From: Christian MICHON Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] tun/tap networking: patch for existing tun In-Reply-To: <43417879.5020106@bellard.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050930221321.C7BED31C14@ravel.n2.net> <20051001131215.GB28444@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <433EF5C4.2030801@eclis.ch> <433F92CB.1060600@eclis.ch> <43402ABC.3040805@us.ibm.com> <20051002193912.GB13825@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <20051003151425.GC27327@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> <43417879.5020106@bellard.org> Reply-To: Christian MICHON , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org to do so, does that mean we would need to launch a 1st qemu instance which would contain the dhcp server, and next qemu instances would connect to it ? if so, 'qemu -server' and 'qemu -client -connect_to server' could be useful... On 10/3/05, Fabrice Bellard wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the lack of comment. I mostly use the 'user-net' networking so > I never bothered much about TUN/TAP. > > What I can say is that the '-net xxx' option will be implemented to > solve the existing issues. My only concern is about ensuring backward > compatibility (if no one needs it then it is much simpler). > > Another point is that I am very tempted to integrate a feature to > connect several qemu without needing an external program such as VDE. I > am thinking of it because it would be relatively easy to add to the > existing user-net code (user-net already simulates a kind of LAN). > > Fabrice. > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > -- Christian