Re: [Qemu-devel] Win32 usermode only network possible? [was: multiple VMs]

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 13:10, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> I like very much the idea of enabling network use without any priviledge 
> rights for Linux and win32. I have looked at the SLiRP code and it seems 
> easy to do (at least for Linux, for win32 I have not looked how to do 
> that with the SDL event loop).
> 
> Expect this feature to come in the next few days :-)
> 

Cool! The win32 side shouldn't be that difficult since sockets under
win32 isn't all that different.

Anyway the way you decribe it the strategy should work under Win32 as
long as you don't use raw sockets since those are priviledged.


A SOCKS proxy would allow two way communication since it allows creation
of listening sockets. But it requires configuration of the clients so
it's not zero-install. Its other advantage is that it would not require
priviledged access to the host. Most important networks apps are
socksified and the setup is very easy (tell the app to use a certain
socks server IP).


-- John.

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