On 2012-08-30 09:23, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 04:43:18PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> I'm writing an iPXE mini-HOWTO (in Russian), using QEMU and >> -net user in examples (so that they're runnable by unprivileged >> users.) >> >> However, the QEMU documentation [1] seems to suggest that only >> IPv4 is implemented for -net user, which made me curious on >> whether the IPv6 support is planned to be added anytime soon? >> >> Personally, I'm interested mostly in QEMU sending router >> (prefix) advertisements to the “guest”, and forwarding TCP and >> UDP traffic, although support for recursive DNS discovery and >> DHCPv6 may also be nice to have. > > Jan Kiszka is the -net user maintainer, I have CCed him. > > I'm not aware of work to add IPv6 support to slirp. Someone would have > to step up and submit patches :).
Yep, I'm also not aware of plans or even activities in this direction. Some refactoring will likely be required to make the IPv4-oriented stack ready for this. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
