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Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?
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Paul Brook |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu? |
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Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:02:04 +0000 |
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On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Liraz Siri wrote:
> Paul Brook wrote:
> > You need root privileges to load the random kernel modules required to d
> > this. Not going to happen for qemu.
>
> There's at least one counter-precedent. qemu takes advantage of kqemu
> which is also a "random kernel module". How would supporting a kernel
> module that simplified a bridged networking be any different?
Well, I'm not a great fan of kqemu to start with. I suspect it may end up
being removed sooner rather than later.
Networking is not a qemu specific feature. The first thing you need to do is
convince the kernel folks that this is a useful feature, and get it
implemented there. Then we can make qemu use that interface.
What you've described sounds a lot like the pcap interface, which has its own
set of problems.
If your main argument is "users are too dumb to configure a bridge" then
you're arguing from a fairly weak position. The answer tends to be that you
need to make your configuration tools suck less.
Paul
- [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?, Liraz Siri, 2008/12/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?, Samuel Thibault, 2008/12/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?, Alexey Eremenko, 2008/12/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?, Paul Brook, 2008/12/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?, C . W . Betts, 2008/12/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?, Avi Kivity, 2008/12/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?, Avi Kivity, 2008/12/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?, Liraz Siri, 2008/12/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?, Avi Kivity, 2008/12/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?, Avi Kivity, 2008/12/25
Re: [Qemu-devel] Merging improvements from VirtualBox OSE into qemu?, Jamie Lokier, 2008/12/24