On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 13:53 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Asias He <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Usermode TCP/IP can be quite cumbersome for users as things like
> > > ping and ip6 won't work properly.
> >
> > Yes, usermode TCP/IP do have limits. But it's more cumbersome for
> > user to setup bridge/nat thing with privileged networking. The
> > network setup is a headache for some users.
>
> That group of 'some users' includes me for example.
Me too.
> The thing is, when i test an existing distro image there's better
> things to do with my time than to figure out that year's preferred
> method of configuring the network and troubleshooting it if it goes
> wrong. So having zero-config networking (assuming we grow some DHCP
> capability as well) would be a real plus.
Yes, we want DHCP or whatever is needed for out-of-the-box distro images
to enable networking in the guest.
Pekka
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