Re : [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-06 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
- Message d'origine De : Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : Asheesh Laroia on [qemu-devel] qemu-devel@nongnu.org Envoyé le : Mardi, 5 Février 2008, 23h24mn 42s Objet : Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Jernej Simončič wrote: On Tuesday

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-06 Thread Ian Jackson
Warner Losh writes (Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x): I think that the suggestion is that qemu picks, one time, a new default. This new default would be selected at random, and would be the same on all new versions of qemu. Yes. I don't think that the suggestion

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-06 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 06/02/2008, Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: andrzej zaborowski writes (Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x): This rfc talks about organisations and networks that are real, not about the network inside qemu which doesn't have connectivity with another qemu

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-06 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, Using a (once) randomly-chosen default greatly reduces the odds of that happening. Many many people foolishly choose 10.0.{0,1,2,3}.x. Many fewer choose (say) 172.30.206.x. So the fixed qemu default should be 172.30.206.x, or some other range also chosen at random. A few years back

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-06 Thread Ian Jackson
andrzej zaborowski writes (Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x): Right, but this happens so rarely (and there are no obvious symptoms when it happens) The symptoms are generally that the host loses its network connection to those parts of the outside world, or that it can't

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andreas Schwab, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 11:32:30 +0100, a écrit : Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mmm, actually, shouldn't qemu use a more private network like a RFC1918 172.16.0.0/12 network? In which way is 172.16.0.0/12 more private than 10.0.0.0/8? Precisely thanks to the

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Andreas Schwab
Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mmm, actually, shouldn't qemu use a more private network like a RFC1918 172.16.0.0/12 network? In which way is 172.16.0.0/12 more private than 10.0.0.0/8? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH,

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Schwab writes (Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x): Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mmm, actually, shouldn't qemu use a more private network like a RFC1918 172.16.0.0/12 network? In which way is 172.16.0.0/12 more private than 10.0.0.0/8? It isn't

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 05.02.2008 um 12:30 schrieb Ian Jackson: I don't believe that 10.0.2.0/24 was chosen randomly :-). It would be better for qemu's default range to be a randomly chosen one. Please don't randomly choose a default subnet; knowing that QEMU uses 10.0.2.x allows to adapt to this. If however

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Warner Losh
From: Andreas Färber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:58:28 +0100 Am 05.02.2008 um 12:30 schrieb Ian Jackson: I don't believe that 10.0.2.0/24 was chosen randomly :-). It would be better for qemu's default range

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Eddie Kohler
Warner Losh wrote: From: Andreas Färber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:58:28 +0100 Am 05.02.2008 um 12:30 schrieb Ian Jackson: I don't believe that 10.0.2.0/24 was chosen randomly :-). It would be better for qemu's

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Ben Taylor
Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andreas Färber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 13:58:28 +0100 Am 05.02.2008 um 12:30 schrieb Ian Jackson: I don't believe that 10.0.2.0/24 was chosen randomly

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Ben Taylor wrote: It seems to me that there is a corner case where the local host has a 10.0.2.x or 10.0.x.x address which would cause a qemu guest problems that has a 10.0.2.15 address (for -net user only). That's right - that's the issue that I faced. I think the

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 05/02/2008, Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Schwab writes (Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x): Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mmm, actually, shouldn't qemu use a more private network like a RFC1918 172.16.0.0/12 network? In which way

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Blue Swirl
I think in VBox the Slirp IP address can be changed. I didn't take that part to my patch: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-10/msg00470.html but it should be easy to add. Currently all NICs share the same subnet.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Ben Taylor
Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Ben Taylor wrote: It seems to me that there is a corner case where the local host has a 10.0.2.x or 10.0.x.x address which would cause a qemu guest problems that has a 10.0.2.15 address (for -net user only). That's

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Brook
but make it configurable on the command line. That way, there are no surprises ever. The rare people like me with an issue can just pass a command-line parameter in. The point I was trying to make is that qemu could easily arbitrate the guest network based on how the host is

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Paul Brook wrote: but make it configurable on the command line. That way, there are no surprises ever. The rare people like me with an issue can just pass a command-line parameter in. The point I was trying to make is that qemu could easily arbitrate the guest network

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Flavio Visentin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ian Jackson wrote: So while this setup is being made configurable, I think it would probably be best for qemu's range to be changed to a random range. The customizable subnet is obviously the preferred choice, but if I had to choose a subnet I'd

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Jernej Simončič wrote: On Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 22:34:04, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I agree with this - guesswork and invisible options can be confusing. That's why I suggest what I think is the simplest solution: Just let this be overridable on the command line. Isn't

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Jamie Lokier
Paul Brook wrote: but make it configurable on the command line. That way, there are no surprises ever. The rare people like me with an issue can just pass a command-line parameter in. The point I was trying to make is that qemu could easily arbitrate the guest network based on

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Brook
On Wednesday 06 February 2008, Jamie Lokier wrote: Paul Brook wrote: but make it configurable on the command line. That way, there are no surprises ever. The rare people like me with an issue can just pass a command-line parameter in. The point I was trying to make is that

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mmm, actually, shouldn't qemu use a more private network like a RFC1918 172.16.0.0/12 network? (see http://www.ucam.org/cam-grin/) Samuel

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-04 Thread Jonathan Kalbfeld
You can always do what I do --- run openvpn between my QEMU sessions and set up private networks that way ;) On Feb 4, 2008 4:24 PM, Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running qemu (really, KVM) in a LAN that uses 10.0.2.x as the IP address block for workstations. So naturally when I

Re: [Qemu-devel] Making qemu use 10.0.3.x not 10.0.2.x

2008-02-04 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Booting that resulted in a virtual machine that, as I had hoped, used 10.0.3.15 and could therefore successfully talk to my 10.0.2.x IPs on the LAN. I've attached a 'cvs diff' against HEAD that results from the above command. And the next guy