[Info-vax] libvirt and emulation

[John E. Malmberg]

On 11/20/2020 11:03 AM, Tomáš Glozar wrote:
> Dne pátek 20. listopadu 2020 v 15:06:56 UTC+1 uživatel John E. Malmberg napsal:
>> Ideally any emulator would have a libvirt driver that can use it.
>>
>> The libvirt API provides an interface for third-party management tools
>> to control the system.
>>
>> It also provides its own GUI and command line tools for managing the
>> configuration of the emulated system.
>>
>> The fastest route to this is to get the libvirt-lxc driver fixed to
>> support privileged containers again. (Or risk running Ubuntu 14.04, etc.)
>>
> 
> The only reason I can think of why the container has to be
> privileged is networking, and that could be solved using user mode
> networking like in QEMU.

An emulator running OpenVMS needs to to be able to modify the MAC 
address of the adapter.

I am not familiar with the user mode networking in QEMU to know if there 
is a way to make it work with libvirt-lxc.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net_work