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Re: [PATCH 0/7] Add vmnet.framework based network backend


From: Vladislav Yaroshchuk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Add vmnet.framework based network backend
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 22:03:12 +0300

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https://patchew.org/QEMU/20210617143246.55336-1-yaroshchuk2000@gmail.com/

чт, 17 июн. 2021 г. в 17:33, Vladislav Yaroshchuk <yaroshchuk2000@gmail.com>:
macOS provides networking API for VMs called vmnet.framework.
I tried to add it as a network backend. All three modes are supported:

-shared:
  allows the guest to comminicate with other guests in shared mode and
  also with external network (Internet) via NAT

-host:
  allows the guest to communicate with other guests in host mode

-bridged:
  bridges the guest with a physical network interface

Separate netdev for each vmnet mode was created because they use quite
different settings, especially since macOS 11.0 when vmnet.framework
gets a lot of updates.

Not sure that I use qemu_mutex_lock_iothread() and
qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread() in correct way while sending packet
from vmnet interface to QEMU. I'll be happy to receive
recomendations how to make this thing better if I done sth wrong.

Also vmnet.framework requires com.apple.vm.networking entitlement to
run without root priveledges. Ad-hoc signing does not fit there,
so I didn't touch anything related to signing. As a result we should
run qemu-system by a priviledged user:
`$ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -nic vmnet-shared`
otherwise vmnet fails with 'general failure'.

But in any way it seems working now,
I tested it within qemu-system-x86-64 on macOS 10.15.7 host, with nic
models:
- e1000-82545em
- virtio-net-pci

and having such guests:
- macOS 10.15.7
- Ubuntu Bionic (server cloudimg)

Vladislav Yaroshchuk (7):
  net/vmnet: dependencies setup, initial preparations
  net/vmnet: add new netdevs to qapi/net
  net/vmnet: create common netdev state structure
  net/vmnet: implement shared mode (vmnet-shared)
  net/vmnet: implement host mode (vmnet-host)
  net/vmnet: implement bridged mode (vmnet-bridged)
  net/vmnet: update qemu-options.hx

 configure           |  31 +++++
 meson.build         |   5 +
 net/clients.h       |  11 ++
 net/meson.build     |   7 ++
 net/net.c           |  10 ++
 net/vmnet-bridged.m | 123 ++++++++++++++++++
 net/vmnet-common.m  | 294 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/vmnet-host.c    |  93 ++++++++++++++
 net/vmnet-shared.c  |  94 ++++++++++++++
 net/vmnet_int.h     |  48 ++++++++
 qapi/net.json       |  99 ++++++++++++++-
 qemu-options.hx     |  17 +++
 12 files changed, 830 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 net/vmnet-bridged.m
 create mode 100644 net/vmnet-common.m
 create mode 100644 net/vmnet-host.c
 create mode 100644 net/vmnet-shared.c
 create mode 100644 net/vmnet_int.h

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