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

[Fabrice Bellard]

Rudi Lippert wrote:
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> Am Mittwoch, 21. April 2004 21:18 schrieb Fabrice Bellard:
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> > You misunderstood the problem: the DHCP server will be inside QEMU, so
> > it will not interfere with the real DHCP servers you may have.
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> ...unless the vm is supposed to use the real (external) dhcp server. would 
> this even be possible?

No, it cannot be done (sending DHCP requests need root priviledge). 
Moreover it is not very useful as the QEMU virtual network uses dummy IP 
addresses which are not meaningful outside.

I just finished the initial version of the DHCP server. It works at 
least with a Linux guest OS.

Fabrice.