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From: "Tiwei Bie" <tiwei.btw@antgroup.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: richard@nod.at, anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com,
	johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] um: Remove legacy network transport support
Date: Mon, 05 May 2025 22:03:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bfa07f4d-16a3-476b-9314-b8052ec198b1@antgroup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdUhWUhHczDG4ihB0cgUG9TTMo6Naszw6oogROnRCrOmKA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Geert,

On 2025/5/5 17:20, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Tiwei,
> 
> On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 07:17, Tiwei Bie <tiwei.btw@antgroup.com> wrote:
>> Tiwei Bie (3):
>>   um: Remove obsolete legacy network transports
>>   um: vector: Eliminate the dependency on uml_net
>>   um: Remove legacy network transport infrastructure
> 
> Thanks for your series!
> 
>>  arch/um/drivers/slirp_kern.c                  | 120 ---
>>  arch/um/drivers/slirp_user.c                  | 124 ---
> 
> It's been a while I used UML, but slirp is what allowed me to run
> UML on a machine at work where I only had normal user access, and do
> root-only things like running Wireshark (then called Ethereal ;-), and
> install and run apps that were not available on the physical machine.
> Do the newer networking options support using networking on a machine
> where you do not have root access?

Yeah, transport like vde supports using networking without root access:

(on host) $ ./linux vec0:transport=vde,vnl=slirp:// ...

(in uml) $ dhclient vec0

PS. I set up vde by installing vdeplug and libvdeplug-slirp on debian 12.

Regards,
Tiwei

> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 



      reply	other threads:[~2025-05-05 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-03  5:17 [PATCH 0/3] um: Remove legacy network transport support Tiwei Bie
2025-05-03  5:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] um: Remove obsolete legacy network transports Tiwei Bie
2025-05-03 13:25   ` Anton Ivanov
2025-05-03  5:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] um: vector: Eliminate the dependency on uml_net Tiwei Bie
2025-05-03 13:26   ` Anton Ivanov
2025-05-05  9:12   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-05-05 13:56     ` Tiwei Bie
2025-05-03  5:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] um: Remove legacy network transport infrastructure Tiwei Bie
2025-05-03 13:26   ` Anton Ivanov
2025-05-05  9:20 ` [PATCH 0/3] um: Remove legacy network transport support Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-05-05 14:03   ` Tiwei Bie [this message]

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