From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJRvd-0007lK-00 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:50:17 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJRvY-0007hc-Cj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:50:16 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53318 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJRvY-0007hY-4o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:50:12 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:57188) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJRvX-0005ip-6g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:50:11 -0400 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e33.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n5OClwLD005614 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:47:58 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n5OCnueo062356 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:49:58 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n5OCnsAm031057 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:49:55 -0600 Message-ID: <4A4220F2.2060500@us.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:49:54 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20090624124227.29402.750.stgit@mchn012c.ww002.siemens.net> In-Reply-To: <20090624124227.29402.750.stgit@mchn012c.ww002.siemens.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 00/41] Slirp Fixes and Enhancements - Reloaded List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Kiszka Cc: Mark McLoughlin , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Jan Kiszka wrote: > The foundation of this series are the patches from my previous posting > that didn't make it into upstream. But while reworking them, the series > grow far beyond the previous approach, adding lots of fixes and cleanups > to the slirp stack and its interfaces. > > One major contribution is that the virtual IP addresses used inside > slirp VLANs are now (almost) freely configurable. This enables > sophisticated virtual network setups, specifically with guests that > depends on specific addresses. > > In this second step, the series also comes with support for multiple > slirp instances per VM. Further contributions are > - proper dynamic slirp cleanup during runtime > - 'info usernet' command to dump slirp connection states > - reworked monitor commands hostfwd_add/remove (formerly known as > host_net_redir) > - save/restore fixes for slirp > - first larger code cleanup (more work required...) > - various small fixes > > The patches have been successfully tested against basic use cases: > connections to/from the guests, redirections, tftp, multi-instance, > save/restore. Moreover, they also passed successfull build tests > against mingw32. > > Regarding the preferred flow: Mark, will you let this go through your > network tree first? Currently the series is based on upstream/master, > but I can rebase if required. > I don't want to do this through a git pull. I'd rather take this into my queue. -- Regards, Anthony Liguori