Package: qemu Version: 0.8.2-4 Severity: wishlist Basically implement this but for Debian: http://people.redhat.com/berrange/olpc/sdk/network-bridge.html
The package would use vde_switch to create a tun/tap network interface named "qemu". This interface is auto-configured at boot time: - with a fixed IP address - dnsmasq runs on it to provide DNS+DHCP for the qemu guests - optionnaly it setups forwarding + ip masquerading so that the qemu virtual network has access to the internet (or the real LAN) Then any user in the vde2-net can start a virtual machine connected on the network (and reachable from the host, contrary to the default user network stack solution provided by qemu) with a command like this one: $ vdeq qemu -m 128 -hda hda.bin -net nic,macaddr=$mac -net vde,sock=/var/run/vde2/qemu.ctl Other pointers on the same topic: http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:vde Currently I configured something like this manually in /etc/network/interfaces: auto qemu iface qemu inet static address 10.0.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 vde2-switch - up /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart || true up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward up iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE up iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE down iptables -t nat -F and my dnsmasq.conf has the following changes: listen-address=10.0.2.1 bind-interfaces dhcp-range=10.0.2.15,10.0.2.100,12h Add some debconf prettyness to ask for the default address/netmask, etc and this package would be really useful for users which are used to make experiences in several virtual machines. :-) Cheers,
