[Info-vax] libvirt and emulation

[John E. Malmberg]

On 11/20/2020 4:02 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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?

Yes.

LAVC appears to use that feature.

I think the networking adapter has to be able to be accessed in 
promiscuous mode in order to pick pick up the cluster traffic.

As I remember, SimH/VAX - Infoserver refused to start in the current 
libvirt-lxc container.

It runs ok in a privileged lxd container.

Regards,
-John