Re: [Qemu-devel] User mode only network progress

[John R. Hogerhuis]

Well I think this is pretty exciting. Won't this make QEMU the first
fully functional completely user mode PC emulator? I say fully
functional meaning that without TCP/IP networking going I don't consider
a modern OS fully functional.

I'll have to try this soon :-)))

I think the DHCP server is a good idea but in my opinion the way VmWare
runs a bunch of servers that interfere with others (such as its Samba
server) is actually one of its weak points in my book. It loses a lot of
simplicity points there.

Perhaps any built-in DHCP server should autodetect other DHCP servers
and disable itself (unless the user forces it to come up with a command
line option) if it detects another DHCP server on the network?

Just a thought.

-- John.

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 16:00, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I finally had a few hours to work on the user mode network and I was 
> able to set up my first TCP connections and DNS requests. I still have 
> to make some cosmetics changes, but it works now at least for a Linux host.
> 
> I added an ARP protocol layer so that the guest OS can really see an 
> ethernet network. I still have to add a simple DHCP server code to have 
> an automatic network installation in most guest OSes.
> 
> Some people may be interested by a virtual PPP link via a virtual modem 
> on the virtual serial port... but I won't implement it :-)
> 
> Fabrice.
> 
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