Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:16:45 +0200
From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
        richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
        Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>,
        Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Linux KVM tool for v3.7-rc0
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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@gmail.com> 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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