[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH-updated] qemu/net: add raw backend

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:46:33AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 1) slirp does not behave how they think it should (icmp doesn't work,  
> guest isn't accessable from host)
> 2) it's difficult to figure out which backend behaves the way they want  
> (socket vs. vde vs. tap)
> 3) when they figure out they need tap, tap is difficult to setup 

This is more or less what we have with sound too, by the way: multiple
backends, not one of which works well in all situations.  Yes, it would
be nice to have a single backend solving all problems, and people are
working on it, but I don't think this is an argument that new partial
solutions are unacceptable.

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MST