Re: [Qemu-devel] tun/tap networking: patch for existing tun

[Jim C. Brown]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 03:01:08PM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
> >>In fact, if qemu supported both these things, then I don't see a reason 
> >>for
> >>-tun-fd at all (except for something like VDE).
> >
> >Agree, and a -vde option will go forward in this direction.
> 
> vde is not the only userspace switch available. Locking qemu to only vde 
> would be bad. I then much prefer not having the builtin vde option or even 
> the tun/tap open code and only keep -tun-fd.  (from -tun-fd all the others 
> can be implemented by a wrapper opening the connections and handing them 
> over to QEMU)
> 

Agreed. So "-net socket,fd=..." or at least -socket-fd (I think it should be
made clear that qemu won't require tap fds, just datagram sockets.)

> >To be clear, I don't propose to remove option at this point, but just to 
> >make qemu more easy to use for simple and most common setup.
> 
> See the proposal from Fabrice some month ago on what the command line 
> parameters should look like. Very nice imho. And very easy to extend with 
> new modes (VDE, persistent TUN/TAP, whatever) without having to introduce 
> new confusing options.
> 

Agreed.

> Regards
> Henrik
> 
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