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Re: virtual network (or whatever)
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Tomas By |
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Re: virtual network (or whatever) |
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Thu, 20 May 2021 02:01:16 +0200 |
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On Thu, 06 May 2021 22:54:16 +0200, john doe wrote:
> On 5/6/2021 12:39 AM, Tomas By wrote:
> > If I want to have a few (3-4) QEMU instances, under Linux, talking to
> > each other, should I use
> > -netdev socket
> > or
> > -netdev tap
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> Looks like 'socket' is what you want
OTOH: "if you want to have multiple guests communicate, the tap
backend is a better choice"
> but why not using SLIRP?
e.g. "there is a lot of overhead so the performance is poor"
(https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking)
I'm using `Nwlink IPX' apparently, and everything looks fine, both on
the Linux host side and the DOS guest side, but the instances do not
seem to communicate. `net share' reports a shared resource
(directory), but I cannot see it from the other instance.
Is socket TCP/IP only (as the name might suggest)?
/Tomas