LEAF vkernel support update 13-May-2008

Simon 'corecode' Schubert corecode at fs.ei.tum.de
Wed May 14 02:21:01 PDT 2008


Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I have basic vkernel functionality working for userland on leaf,
>     for SOC and other developers.  
> 
>     However, to make it useful there needs to be user-accessible
>     network support.  Otherwise the vkernel has no real way of
>     copying files into and out of its running image.  I am writing
>     a little network service to make this possible and reasonably
>     secure and that is going to take another day or two.

This is excellent news!  I needed this myself, but didn't have the time to do so.  I guess you'll just do some sort of proxying on the outside, opening TCP sockets/connections as required?  Usually ping then doesn't work.

thanks,
  simon


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