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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] IPv6 support for -net user?
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
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On 2012-08-30 09:23, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 04:43:18PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>> 	I'm writing an iPXE mini-HOWTO (in Russian), using QEMU and
>> 	-net user in examples (so that they're runnable by unprivileged
>> 	users.)
>>
>> 	However, the QEMU documentation [1] seems to suggest that only
>> 	IPv4 is implemented for -net user, which made me curious on
>> 	whether the IPv6 support is planned to be added anytime soon?
>>
>> 	Personally, I'm interested mostly in QEMU sending router
>> 	(prefix) advertisements to the =E2=80=9Cguest=E2=80=9D, and forwardin=
g TCP and
>> 	UDP traffic, although support for recursive DNS discovery and
>> 	DHCPv6 may also be nice to have.
>=20
> Jan Kiszka is the -net user maintainer, I have CCed him.
>=20
> I'm not aware of work to add IPv6 support to slirp.  Someone would have
> to step up and submit patches :).

Yep, I'm also not aware of plans or even activities in this direction.
Some refactoring will likely be required to make the IPv4-oriented stack
ready for this.

Jan

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