[OE-core] RFC: Who wants/cares about SLiRP networking for QEMU?

[Scott Garman]

This is an inquiry to see if there's much interest in adding an 
alternate networking capability for our QEMU setups. Currently, we use 
tun/tap devices, which need root privileges to be created. Hence, our 
runqemu script requires sudo access.

I'm curious to know who would like to see us use an alternate mechanism 
(most likely SLiRP) to get around the need for sudo access. Is this much 
of a problem for anyone, or would the team's resources be better spent 
on other bugfixes?

Secondly, does anyone have any war stories about using SLiRP for this 
purpose? Is there a better way we should consider doing this?

Thanks,

Scott

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Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center