On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 08:30:19AM +0100, Renzo Davoli wrote: > It would be a nice project to create a common codebase for libslirp. > The project sould be interesting for other VM projects (virtualbox-OSE?) and > maybe many others. We could collect several ants... > > Libslirp/QEMU integration is not so difficult. > As a first step: > * Qemu could add the UNIX socket redirect feature, or at least a > unixtcp_fconnect dummy function > returning -1 (#ifndef LIBSLIRP) > * #include <qemu2libslirp.h> > could be added in slirp.h (inside an #ifdef LIBSLIRP). > In this way we could share exactly the same codebase. > > One further step: > * discuss how to reduce/eliminate qemu-specific dependence > * create an API for save/restore
Eliminating QEMU dependencies is feasible, I think. libslirp could have no "qemu" strings in the code :). Applications like QEMU need to query libslirp for timers and fds so they can be integrated into event loops (select(2)). Once there is a working libslirp that arbitrary programs can link against it can be packaged (rpm, deb, etc) and announced. That might attract new contributors. Stefan
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