Re: [GIT PULL] Linux KVM tool for v3.7-rc0

From: Gleb Natapov
Date: Mon Oct 22 2012 - 06:17:13 EST


On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:24:19AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/21/2012 05:39 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 5:02 PM, richard -rw- weinberger
> > <richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> qemu supports all these features.
> >> E.g. to access the host fs use:
> >> qemu ... \
> >> -fsdev local,security_model=passthrough,id=fsdev-root,path=/your/root/,readonly
> >> \
> >> -device virtio-9p-pci,id=fs-root,fsdev=fsdev-root,mount_tag=rootshare
> >
> > IIRC, QEMU uses SLIRP non-root zero-config networking which is much
> > more limited than what LKVM offers out of the box.
>
> Curious, what are the differences?
>
Me too, especially as we discussed replacing SLIRP with lkvm code for
userspace networking and decided (for reasons I do not remember) that it
lacks futures SLIRP has. Was it host port redirection?

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Gleb.
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