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Diffstat (limited to 'package/qemu/Config.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | package/qemu/Config.in | 25 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/package/qemu/Config.in b/package/qemu/Config.in index 13b615bfba..61a2a1072e 100644 --- a/package/qemu/Config.in +++ b/package/qemu/Config.in @@ -54,8 +54,29 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_QEMU_CUSTOM_TARGETS x86_64-softmmu | sparc-bsd-user ... | ... -config QEMU_FOO - bool # To break the indentation +comment "Networking options" + +config BR2_PACKAGE_QEMU_SLIRP + bool "Enable user mode networking (SLIRP)" + help + Enable user mode network stack, which is the default + networking backend. It requires no administrator privileges + and generally is the easiest to use but has some + limitations: + + - there is a lot of overhead so the performance is poor; + - in general ICMP does not work (can't ping from/to a guest) + - on Linux hosts, ping does work from within the guest, but it + needs initial setup by root (once per host) + - the guest is not directly accessible from the host or the + external network + + User Networking is implemented using "slirp", which provides a + full TCP/IP stack within QEMU and uses that stack to implement + a virtual NAT'd network. + + Notice that this option does not disable other networking + modes. if BR2_PACKAGE_QEMU_CUSTOM_TARGETS = "" |
