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    slirp: Enable multiple instances · b1c99fcd
    Jan Kiszka authored
    
    
    Once again this was a long journey to reach the destination: Allow to
    instantiate slirp multiple times. But as in the past, the journey was
    worthwhile, cleaning up, fixing and enhancing various parts of the user
    space network stack along the way.
    
    What is this particular change good for? Multiple slirps instances
    allow separated user space networks for guests with multiple NICs. This
    is already possible, but without any slirp support for the second
    network, ie. without a chance to talk to that network from the host via
    IP. We have a legacy guest system here that benefits from this slirp
    enhancement, allowing us to run both of its NICs purely over
    unprivileged user space IP stacks.
    
    Another benefit of this patch is that it simply removes an artificial
    restriction of the configuration space qemu is providing, avoiding
    another source of surprises that users may face when playing with
    possible setups.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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