| commit | 60535013c3e22408f5f39e0fe2cba7bd762b66af | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com> | Tue Jan 25 23:10:08 2022 +0000 |
| committer | Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com> | Tue Jan 25 23:36:05 2022 +0000 |
| tree | 1adf68e530e53479ef3485ad987e9af764d6c2ac | |
| parent | 857d5ed77d9f0f0cc5122eb7200fa44f3af1053e [diff] |
bootp: add support for UEFI HTTP boot Current bootp implementation is only one step away from supporting UEFI HTTP boot in QEMU. The only missing bit is that the UEFI specification [1] requires a vendor class identifier option (num 60) set to "HTTPClient" string present in the DHCP response. OVMF [2] indeed ignores the DHCP response and considers UEFI HTTP boot as failed, if this option is not present. With this change one would be able to configure QEMU user networking like below: $ qemu ... -nic user,tftp=tftp-root,bootfile=http://10.0.2.2/ipxe.efi and boot the VM using UEFI HTTP boot instead of TFTP. [1]: https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_9_2021_03_18.pdf [2]: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/tree/5302bd81d9ba0c9e7f2371a81c438ec919ec8e1e/OvmfPkg Signed-off-by: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>
libslirp is a user-mode networking library used by virtual machines, containers or various tools.
A C compiler, meson and glib2 development libraries.
(see also .gitlab-ci.yml DEPS variable for the list of dependencies on Fedora)
You may build and install the shared library with meson:
meson build ninja -C build install
And configure QEMU with --enable-slirp=system to link against it.
(QEMU may build with the submodule static library using --enable-slirp=git)
Unfortunately, there are no automated tests available.
You may run QEMU -net user linked with your development version.
Feel free to open issues on the project issues page.
You may clone the gitlab project and create a merge request.
Contributing with gitlab allows gitlab workflow, tracking issues, running CI etc.
Alternatively, you may send patches to slirp@lists.freedesktop.org mailing list.
We intend to use libtool's versioning for the shared libraries and use SemVer for project versions.
For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.
See the COPYRIGHT file for details.