Re: [Qemu-devel] tun/tap networking

[Jean-Christian de Rivaz]

Jim C. Brown a écrit :
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 10:24:03PM +0200, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
>
> > > And qemu already supports that, via the -tun-fd option.
> >
> > Can you please give me an exemple how to use the -tun-fd option to open 
> > an existing tun (i.e: tun-alice) ? This option only work for already 
> > opened tap/tun interface as I understand.
>
>
> I see what you mean now. qemu itself has no direct support for persistent tuntap
> devices.
>
> However, I imagine that one could modify tundev.c or tapdev.c to open a 
> persistent
> tuntap device (by name) and then pass the fd to qemu via -tun-fd. It would be
> better if qemu had direct support for them of course.

Where are this tundev.c or tapdev.c files ? I just updated qemu from CVS 
and I found no files named like this.

address@hidden:~/qemu/qemu$ cvs -qz9 update -AdP
? tun2.patch
M qemu-doc.texi
M vl.c
address@hidden:~/qemu/qemu$ find . -type f -name "t*dev*"
address@hidden:~/qemu/qemu$

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Jean-Christian de Rivaz