From 11efaefa1edc340fc3948726893ff81630370744 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Brivio Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 02:38:31 +0100 Subject: passt, qrap, README: Update notes and documentation for AF_UNIX support in qemu We can't get rid of qrap quite yet, but at least we should start telling users it's not going to be needed anymore starting from qemu 7.2. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio --- qrap.1 | 13 +++++-------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'qrap.1') diff --git a/qrap.1 b/qrap.1 index cc73f1e..5246e1b 100644 --- a/qrap.1 +++ b/qrap.1 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .SH NAME .B qrap -\- qemu wrapper connecting UNIX domain socket to file descriptor +\- temporary qemu wrapper connecting UNIX domain socket to file descriptor .SH SYNOPSIS .B qrap @@ -47,13 +47,10 @@ $ ./qrap test.qcow2 -m 1024 -display none -nodefaults -nographic .SH NOTES -This wrapper is temporary and needed only as long as \fBqemu\fR(1) does not -directly support a UNIX domain socket as \fInetdev\fR back-end. - -Out-of-tree patches for \fBqemu\fR(1) introducing support for a UNIX domain -socket back-end are available at: - - \fIhttps://passt.top/passt/tree/contrib/qemu\fR +This wrapper is temporary: qemu commit 13c6be96618c ("net: stream: add unix +socket") introduces native AF_UNIX socket support, and it should be included in +qemu starting from the 7.2 release. It will be around for a little bit longer to +give users enough time to switch. .SH AUTHOR -- cgit v1.2.3