VKernel progress update - 8 Jan 2006 (milestone reached!)

Scott Ullrich geekgod at geekgod.com
Tue Jan 9 13:42:41 PST 2007


Matthew Dillon wrote:
:>     Would someone like to write a pseudo network driver for the virtual
:>     kernel this week, for the release?  Sephe maybe?  It has to be someone
:>     familiar with NETIF due to our release deadline.  The
:>     /usr/src/sys/dev/virtual/net directory is empty and waiting!
:
:./kernel.debug -I /dev/tap0 -r /opt/vkernel/rootimg.01 -m 128m
:
:# ifconfig vke0
:vke0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
:        inet 192.168.4.6 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.4.255
:        inet6 fe80::2257:ff:fe00:0%vke0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
:        ether 20:57:00:00:00:00
:
::DD
:
:http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/vke.diff
:
:Hope ppl can improve it, when I wake up tomorrow.
:
:Best Regards,
:sephe
    Holy cow, I really expected that to take more then 10 minutes to
    write!
    Sephe, please commit it!

						-Matt

Wow, this is exciting.  Great work Matt, Sephe, Sascha and anyone else 
that I have missed that helped out on this effort.  Look forward to 
start playing around with this!!

Scott





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