Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-3.2 00/41] RFC: slirp: make it again a standalone project

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 03:46:39PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> The issue I have with SLIRP isn't that it solves a useless problem (au
> contraire!), it's that it's a useless solution.  Okay, that's an unfair
> exaggeration, it's not useless, I just wouldn't trust it in production,
> unless it has improved significantly since I last looked at it.

It's used by virt-builder, virt-customize, virt-v2v, etc., in some
cases in production.  Of course those uses are not completely general
purpose (it'll be things like running very specific, known ‘yum install’
commands from the guest), and we test it quite a bit.

Rich.

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