Re: [Qemu-devel] Connecting vde and LAN

[Jim C. Brown]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 04:21:31AM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Jim C. Brown wrote:
> 
> >The best solution is to use a vde_switch with libpcap and libnet. This 
> >allows
> >intercepting packets meant for the guests (via libnet) and forwarding them 
> >thru
> >vde.
> 
> Interesting idea. Would make full qemu networking truly a no-brainer.
> 
> Should even be possible to write just the libpcap+libnet "driver", 
> avoiding the need of a full vde_switch in such case.
> 

Yes, but if one was running multiple qemu guests, it would be cleaner to
implement this thru vde_switch instead of in qemu directly. That way eth0 is
intercepted by only a single process. (Also no worries about having permissions
to intercept packets and etc for qemu - just run vde_switch as root and qemu
as a regular user.)

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