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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Anders Pitman <anders@apitman.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Future of libslirp in QEMU
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:57:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9237970a-3852-bcc6-0243-04c76fbe57d0@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f5cc095-e5e9-486d-8e52-d22cac6d2379@www.fastmail.com>

On 4/20/22 21:08, Anders Pitman wrote:
> I noticed in the 7.0 changelog that libslirp might be removed as a 
> submodule in the future. Since user networking is very important for my 
> project, I'm wondering if this is simply an implementation detail, or if 
> there are plans to eventually remove slirp support entirely from QEMU 
> (which would be bad for me)?

No, libslirp is now a standalone project and we'll rely on distros to 
provide the package for the library (and a -devel package that 
meson/pkg-config can use to find whether the library exist).

Paolo

> Is there somewhere I can read the discussion about this? I searched the 
> mailing list archives but didn't see anything obvious.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-21 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-20 19:08 Future of libslirp in QEMU Anders Pitman
2022-04-20 20:21 ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2022-04-20 21:18   ` Anders Pitman
2022-04-21 12:57     ` Cornelia Huck
2022-04-21 11:57 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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