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by anderspitman 1339 days ago
I have a project that relies on user mode networking. passt is a very welcome development. Really hoping it supports Windows QEMU hosts at some point.
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bonzini 1339 days ago
Very difficult, it's not portable so it would be basically a rewrite. I read that similar APIs are present in FreeBSD, but at least it's POSIX-based so that does not really say anything about the complexity of a Windows port.

Anyhow, the presentation mentioned above explains which Linux extensions are needed.

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sbrivio 1339 days ago
You might be right, but I hope you're not. :)

I had a look at Winsock documentation a while ago, that doesn't look so bad in terms of what we need. See also: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220919232441.661eda8d@e.... Replacing epoll might be messy, though.

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