[Info-vax] libvirt and emulation

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-11-20 kl. 22:33, skrev 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.

Even if you do not use DECnet?

> 
> 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
>