On 02/07/2024 10:08, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
Hi
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 7:53 PM Laurent Vivier <lviv...@redhat.com
<mailto:lviv...@redhat.com>> wrote:
Add the description of "-netdev stream" and "-netdev dgram" in the QEMU
manpage.
Add some examples on how to use them, including a way to use
"-netdev stream" and "passt" in place of "-netdev user".
("passt" is a non privileged translation proxy between layer-2,
like "-netdev stream", and layer-4 on host, like TCP, UDP,
ICMP/ICMPv6 echo)
Was there any plan to have passt fallback (default / "-net passt") when slirp is disabled
? spawning the process with -F fd etc. That would help migrating away from slirp for some
systems.
Yes, I'm planning to add a "-netdev passt" that will start passt and connect it to a
stream socket to QEMU. Perhaps at some point we can have a "-netdev slirp" and "-netdev
user" will us by default passt?
I'm also working on a vhost-user interface for passt that will also improve performance of
user mode networking with QEMU.
Thanks,
Laurent
