[PATCH 0/3] um: Remove legacy network transport support

[Tiwei Bie]

Hi Geert,

On 2025/5/5 17:20, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Tiwei,
> 
> On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 07:17, Tiwei Bie <tiwei.btw at antgroup.com> wrote:
>> Tiwei Bie (3):
>>   um: Remove obsolete legacy network transports
>>   um: vector: Eliminate the dependency on uml_net
>>   um: Remove legacy network transport infrastructure
> 
> Thanks for your series!
> 
>>  arch/um/drivers/slirp_kern.c                  | 120 ---
>>  arch/um/drivers/slirp_user.c                  | 124 ---
> 
> It's been a while I used UML, but slirp is what allowed me to run
> UML on a machine at work where I only had normal user access, and do
> root-only things like running Wireshark (then called Ethereal ;-), and
> install and run apps that were not available on the physical machine.
> Do the newer networking options support using networking on a machine
> where you do not have root access?

Yeah, transport like vde supports using networking without root access:

(on host) $ ./linux vec0:transport=vde,vnl=slirp:// ...

(in uml) $ dhclient vec0

PS. I set up vde by installing vdeplug and libvdeplug-slirp on debian 12.

Regards,
Tiwei

> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
>