Re: Future of libslirp in QEMU

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 4/20/22 21:08, Anders Pitman wrote:
> I noticed in the 7.0 changelog that libslirp might be removed as a 
> submodule in the future. Since user networking is very important for my 
> project, I'm wondering if this is simply an implementation detail, or if 
> there are plans to eventually remove slirp support entirely from QEMU 
> (which would be bad for me)?

No, libslirp is now a standalone project and we'll rely on distros to 
provide the package for the library (and a -devel package that 
meson/pkg-config can use to find whether the library exist).

Paolo

> Is there somewhere I can read the discussion about this? I searched the 
> mailing list archives but didn't see anything obvious.