[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make ping work for -net user

2007-08-15 Thread jbrown105
This is a very simple proof-of-concept patch that fakes ICMP well enough for ping to work. Basically, when the slirp code gets a ping request for an ip outside of the slirp network, it runs /bin/ping and reports the results back to the guest accordingly. Right now it uses vfork() and then exec()

[Qemu-devel] updated block-partition driver

2007-03-25 Thread jbrown105
This edition is finally able to construct a real partition table. Still buggy (linux fdisk complains about it) but partitions are mountable inside the VM. The full syntax is: qemu -hda partition:boot=1,bootloader=bootmbr.bin,/dev/hda1,sysid=0xC,partition.raw,sysid=ox82,/dev/sda2,sysid=0x83 You

Re: [Qemu-devel] block composite driver and partition driver

2007-03-25 Thread jbrown105
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've finally gotten around to working on my multipart driver again. Why? I'm new to the list. Can you elaborate what sorts of things this would be used for? I haven't yet gotten around to writing my per device snapshot enablable/specifiable COW tmpfiles patch. But