Re: [Qemu-devel] For what is slirp ?

[Jens Arm]

> > Is there a description, what I have to do at the Host and qemu-client to 
> > use network
> > over slirp?
> 
> AFAIK:
> Client: configure the net interface for DHCP.
> You'll get an address like 10.0.2.15 default route to 10.0.2.2 (or
> something similar). Also the DNS access get forwarded through SLIRP.
> There is a fake DNS @10.0.2.2 (or similar) and queries are forwarded.
> Ping (ICMP) may have trouble but TCP works like a charm.
> Host: nothing at all. Be connected to something... You'll access from
> qemu what is connected to the host machine, nothing more ;-)



If I type the IPs by hand it works.

Looks like DHCP in slirp/qemu is broken ?


Jens