Re: [Qemu-devel] IPv6 support for -net user?

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2012-08-30 09:23, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 04:43:18PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>>      I'm writing an iPXE mini-HOWTO (in Russian), using QEMU and
>>      -net user in examples (so that they're runnable by unprivileged
>>      users.)
>>
>>      However, the QEMU documentation [1] seems to suggest that only
>>      IPv4 is implemented for -net user, which made me curious on
>>      whether the IPv6 support is planned to be added anytime soon?
>>
>>      Personally, I'm interested mostly in QEMU sending router
>>      (prefix) advertisements to the “guest”, and forwarding TCP and
>>      UDP traffic, although support for recursive DNS discovery and
>>      DHCPv6 may also be nice to have.
> 
> Jan Kiszka is the -net user maintainer, I have CCed him.
> 
> I'm not aware of work to add IPv6 support to slirp.  Someone would have
> to step up and submit patches :).

Yep, I'm also not aware of plans or even activities in this direction.
Some refactoring will likely be required to make the IPv4-oriented stack
ready for this.

Jan

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