On Fri, 05 May 2006 14:51:28 -0700, Don Kitchen wrote: > Next, it seems the *one* thing QEMU lacks that you-know-who does correctly > is networking, specifically bridged mode. I know about creating a tap > device and sticking it into a bridge (really hasn't worked for me, but > that's the subject for a different day.)
I use bridging with qemu so I can attest that it works quite well once you get it to work. We face a similar problem in Xen. The solution we've come up with is a *very* complicated script that attempts to reconfigure your networking setup. The problem with this general approach is that how networking is configured is *very* distro-specific. In Xen, we attempt to be generic but in reality, it only works on a very specific set of distros that we frequently test on. VMware faces the same problem (of course). Networking doesn't tend to work well at all unless you're on a supported distro. What's really needed is the NetworkManager equivalent for network configuration. That is, something that has backends for all of the popular distros that can provide a consistent interface to reconfiguring networking. Of course, it all falls apart if you do crazy things locally (like using insane iptables rules) but it would help for the majority of users. Regards, Anthony Liguori _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel