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Michael Ellerman a3adb7ad3b vl.c: In qemu -h output, only print options for the arch we are running as
Only print options in the help output that are accepted by our arch.
This is less confusing for users and also for other programs that
consume the help output.

The options affected are:

 -g and -prom-env only displayed on PPC or SPARC

 -win2k-hack, -rtc-td-hack, -no-fd-bootchk, -no-acpi, -no-hpet,
 -acpitable, -smbios only displayed on i386

 -semihosting only displayed on ARM, M68K or XTENSA

 -old-param only displayed on ARM

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-12-19 10:27:33 -06:00
Stefan Weil e7d81004e4 Fix spelling in comments, documentation and messages
accidently->accidentally
annother->another
choosen->chosen
consideres->considers
decriptor->descriptor
developement->development
paramter->parameter
preceed->precede
preceeding->preceding
priviledge->privilege
propogation->propagation
substraction->subtraction
throught->through
upto->up to
usefull->useful

Fix also grammar in posix-aio-compat.c

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-14 11:09:44 +00:00
Stefan Hajnoczi fb0490f69f block: add -drive copy-on-read=on|off
This patch adds the -drive copy-on-read=on|off command-line option:

  copy-on-read=on|off
  copy-on-read is "on" or "off" and enables whether to copy read backing
  file sectors into the image file.  Copy-on-read avoids accessing the
  same backing file sectors repeatedly and is useful when the backing
  file is over a slow network.  By default copy-on-read is off.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-12-05 14:51:38 +01:00
Zhi Yong Wu 0563e19151 block: add the blockio limits command line support
Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-12-05 14:51:35 +01:00
Anthony Liguori 8494a397b6 Merge remote-tracking branch 'kwolf/for-anthony' into staging
Conflicts:
	block/vmdk.c
2011-10-31 11:09:00 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 9db221ae73 hw/9pfs: Add synthetic file system support using 9p
This patch create a synthetic file system with mount tag
v_synth when -virtfs_synth command line option is specified
in qemu. The synthetic file system can be mounted in guest
using 9p using the below command line

mount -t 9p -oversion=9p2000.L,trans=virtio v_synth  <mountpint>

Synthetic file system enabled different qemu subsystem to register
callbacks for read and write events from guest. The subsystem
can create directories and files in the synthetic file system as show
in ex below

    qemu_v9fs_synth_mkdir(NULL, 0777, "test2", &node);
    qemu_v9fs_synth_add_file(node, 0777, "testfile",
                             my_test_read, NULL, NULL);

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-31 12:34:18 +05:30
M. Mohan Kumar 2c74c2cb4b hw/9pfs: Read-only support for 9p export
A new fsdev parameter "readonly" is introduced to control accessing 9p export.
"readonly" can be used to specify the access type. By default "rw" access
is given to 9p export.

Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-31 12:34:17 +05:30
Ronnie Sahlberg d99902287c Documentation: Add syntax for using sheepdog devices
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-10-28 19:25:50 +02:00
Ronnie Sahlberg 08ae330e17 Documentation: Describe NBD URL syntax
This patch adds a short description of how to specify a NBD device
to QEMU.
Syntax for both TCP and Unix Domain Sockets are provided as well
as examples.

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-10-28 19:25:49 +02:00
Ronnie Sahlberg 0f5314a2c8 Documentation: Add iSCSI section
Add new section for device URL syntax for special files and describe the iSCSI
URL with examples

Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-10-28 19:25:49 +02:00
Anthony Liguori 1f99b94932 Merge remote-tracking branch 'aneesh/for-upstream-6' into staging
Conflicts:
	trace-events
2011-10-20 08:42:08 -05:00
M. Mohan Kumar d9b36a6e56 hw/9pfs: Handle Security model parsing
Except local fs driver all other fs drivers (handle, synth) don't need
security model. Update fsdev parameter parsing accordingly.

Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-15 15:30:27 +05:30
Aneesh Kumar K.V 7c92a3d2a1 qemu-options.hx: Update virtfs command documentation
Clarify the virtfs option better
Updates from:Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-15 15:30:26 +05:30
Stefan Hajnoczi 3a846906c9 qemu-options: avoid #if in spicevmc texi help
Preprocessor directives cannot be used in STEXI/ETEXI sections since
they are not passed through the preprocessor.  The spicevmc chardev
option help currently uses #if, which is included verbatim in the man
page output.

Fix this by simply stating that spicevmc chardevs are available only in
builds with spice support.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-14 14:36:03 +01:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V d3ab98e691 hw/9pfs: Add new virtfs option writeout=immediate skip host page cache
writeout=immediate implies the after pwritev we do a sync_file_range.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-12 19:11:23 +05:30
Max Filippov 1ddeaa5d42 target-xtensa: implement SIMCALL
Tensilica iss provides support for applications running in freestanding
environment through SIMCALL command. It is used by Tensilica libc to
access argc/argv, for file I/O, etc.

Note that simcalls that accept buffer addresses expect virtual addresses.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-09-10 16:57:39 +00:00
Stefan Weil c1ba4e0be1 qemu-options: Improve help texts for options which depend on configure
* Replace "available only" by the more common "only available".

* Tracing options depend on the configuration of the QEMU executable,
  so clarify the help text for both options.

Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-09 09:43:18 +01:00
Brad e2d8830efc Allow overriding the location of Samba's smbd.
Allow overriding the location of Samba's smbd.

Pretty much every OS I look at has some means of
changing this path (patching) so lets just make
it easier for OS developers creating packages
and/or end users to override the location.

Signed-off-by: Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-09-03 17:45:48 +00:00
Lluís 9a82b6a590 trace: [stderr] add support for dynamically enabling/disabling events
Uses the generic interface provided in "trace/control.h" in order to provide
a programmatic interface as well as command line and monitor controls.

Signed-off-by: Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>
Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
2011-09-01 10:34:54 +01:00
Lluís 23d15e860b trace: add "-trace events" argument to control initial state
The "-trace events" argument can be used to provide a file with a list of trace
event names that will be enabled prior to starting execution, thus providing
early tracing.

This saves the user from manually toggling event states through the monitor
interface or whichever backend-specific interface.

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
2011-09-01 10:34:54 +01:00
Lluís e4858974ec trace: avoid conditional code compilation during option parsing
A default implementation for backend-specific routines is provided in
"trace/default.c", which backends can override by setting "trace_default=no" in
"configure".

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
2011-09-01 10:34:53 +01:00
Lluís 6d8a764e0f trace: [configure] rename CONFIG_*_TRACE into CONFIG_TRACE_*
Provides a more hierarchical view of the variable domain.

Also adds the CONFIG_TRACE_* variables for all backends.

[Stefan added missing 'test' in stap if statement]

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-01 10:34:53 +01:00
Stefan Hajnoczi 92196b2f56 block: add cache=directsync parameter to -drive
This patch adds -drive cache=directsync for O_DIRECT | O_SYNC host file
I/O with no disk write cache presented to the guest.

This mode is useful when guests may not be sending flushes when
appropriate and therefore leave data at risk in case of power failure.
When cache=directsync is used, write operations are only completed to
the guest when data is safely on disk.

This new mode is like cache=writethrough but it bypasses the host page
cache.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-23 14:15:17 +02:00
Michael Tokarev 104bf02eb5 revamp acpitable parsing and allow to specify complete (headerful) table
This patch almost rewrites acpi_table_add() function
(but still leaves it using old get_param_value() interface).
The result is that it's now possible to specify whole table
(together with a header) in an external file, instead of just
data portion, with a new file= parameter, but at the same time
it's still possible to specify header fields as before.

Now with the checkpatch.pl formatting fixes, thanks to
Stefan Hajnoczi for suggestions, with changes from
Isaku Yamahata, and with my further refinements.

Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: John Baboval <john.baboval@virtualcomputer.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
[yamahata@valinux.co.jp: fix compile error, comment fallthrough]
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-07-30 09:33:31 +00:00
wayne 3d3b8303c6 showing a splash picture when start
Added options to let qemu transfer two configuration files to bios:
"bootsplash.bmp" and "etc/boot-menu-wait", which could be specified by command
    -boot splash=P,splash-time=T
P is jpg/bmp file name or an absolute path, T have a max value of 0xffff, unit
is ms. With these two options, if user invoke qemu with menu=on option, then
a splash picture would be showed in a given time. For example:
    qemu -boot menu=on,splash=/root/boot.bmp,splash-time=5000
would make boot.bmp shown as a brand with 5 seconds in the booting up process.
This feature need the new seabios's support, which could be got from git.

Signed-off-by: Wayne Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-07-29 08:25:44 -05:00
Jan Kiszka c54ed5bcdd slirp: Canonicalize restrict syntax
All other boolean arguments accept on|off - except for slirp's restrict.
Fix that while still accepting the formerly allowed yes|y|no|n, but
reject everything else. This avoids accidentally allowing external
connections because syntax errors were so far interpreted as
'restrict=no'.

CC: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-07-23 10:19:49 -05:00
Jan Kiszka 80f52a6694 Deprecate -M command line options
Superseded by -machine. Therefore, this patch removes -M from the help
list and pushes -machine at the same place in the output.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-07-23 10:19:49 -05:00
Jan Kiszka 9052ea6bf4 Generalize -machine command line option
-machine somehow suggests that it selects the machine, but it doesn't.
Fix that before this command is set in stone.

Actually, -machine should supersede -M and allow to introduce arbitrary
per-machine options to the command line. That will change the internal
realization again, but we will be able to keep the user interface
stable.

Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-07-23 10:19:49 -05:00
Luiz Capitulino ae73e5919a qemu-options.hx: Document missing -drive options
They are 'werror', 'rerror' and 'readonly'.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-07-19 15:39:05 +02:00
Vasily Khoruzhick 9312805d33 pxa2xx_lcd: add proper rotation support
Until now, pxa2xx_lcd only supported 90deg rotation, but
some machines (for example Zipit Z2) needs 270deg rotation.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@intel.com>
2011-07-04 22:12:21 +02:00
Matthew Fernandez c235d7387c Command line support for altering the log file location
Add command line support for logging to a location other than /tmp/qemu.log.

With logging enabled (command line option -d), the log is written to
the hard-coded path /tmp/qemu.log. This patch adds support for writing
the log to a different location by passing the -D option.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Fernandez <matthew.fernandez@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-06-15 16:51:24 +00:00
Brad Hards caef55ed14 doc: Minor typo fix.
Thanks to agraf_, stefanha and Snader_LB for their IRC assistance.

Thanks to Markus Armbruster and Alexander Graf (again) for their
assistance with the second version of this patch. No patch is too
simple to test...

Signed-off-by: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
2011-06-10 23:25:36 +02:00
Marc-André Lureau 48b3ed0a68 spice: add SASL support
Turn on SASL support by appending "sasl" to the spice arguments, which
requires that the client use SASL to authenticate with the spice.  The
exact choice of authentication method used is controlled from the
system / user's SASL configuration file for the 'qemu' service. This
is typically found in /etc/sasl2/qemu.conf. If running QEMU as an
unprivileged user, an environment variable SASL_CONF_PATH can be used
to make it search alternate locations for the service config.  While
some SASL auth methods can also provide data encryption (eg GSSAPI),
it is recommended that SASL always be combined with the 'tls' and
'x509' settings to enable use of SSL and server certificates. This
ensures a data encryption preventing compromise of authentication
credentials.

It requires support from spice 0.8.1.

[ kraxel: moved spell fix to separate commit ]

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2011-06-06 09:14:42 +02:00
Hans de Goede d4970b071f spice: add option for disabling copy paste support
Some people want to be able disable spice's guest <-> client copy paste support
because of security considerations.

[ kraxel: drop old-version error message ]
2011-06-06 09:14:42 +02:00
Brad Hards de1db2a172 doc: Add explanation that -alt-grab and -ctrl-grab affect special keys
Phillip Merensky reported that the special keys (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-f for full
screen) did not work correctly if -alt-grab is used.

BUG: 696530

Review of ui/sdl.c:sdl_refresh indicates that this is the intended behaviour,
so we should update the documentation to match the actual behaviour, as
suggested by Phillip in the bug report.

Signed-off-by: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2011-05-15 00:13:48 +02:00
Anthony PERARD 303d4e865b Introduce -machine command option.
This option gives the ability to switch one "accelerator" like kvm, xen
or the default one tcg. We can specify more than one accelerator by
separate them by a colon. QEMU will try each one and use the first whose
works.

So,
./qemu -machine accel=xen:kvm:tcg

which would try Xen support first, then KVM and finally TCG if none of
the other works.

By default, QEMU will use TCG. But we can specify another default in the
global configuration file.

Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2011-05-08 10:09:59 +02:00
Brad Hards b0b36e5d2e doc: fix slirp description
net/slirp.c says:
    /* default settings according to historic slirp */
    struct in_addr net  = { .s_addr = htonl(0x0a000200) }; /* 10.0.2.0 */
    struct in_addr mask = { .s_addr = htonl(0xffffff00) }; /* 255.255.255.0 */
    struct in_addr host = { .s_addr = htonl(0x0a000202) }; /* 10.0.2.2 */
    struct in_addr dhcp = { .s_addr = htonl(0x0a00020f) }; /* 10.0.2.15 */
    struct in_addr dns  = { .s_addr = htonl(0x0a000203) }; /* 10.0.2.3 */

Which I think is not what the documentation says.

Signed-off-by: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
2011-04-25 23:10:04 +02:00
Stefan Weil 61cc8701f3 Fix some typos in comments and documentation
helpfull -> helpful
usefull -> useful
cotrol -> control

and a grammar fix.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-04-16 12:24:28 +01:00
Jes Sorensen 47b053690e error message if user specifies curses on cmd line when curses is disabled
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-03-22 08:39:12 -05:00
Jes Sorensen 58fc096c76 error message if user specifies SDL cmd line option when SDL is disabled
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-03-22 08:39:12 -05:00
Jes Sorensen 3264ff120c Add support for -display vnc
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-03-22 08:39:11 -05:00
Jes Sorensen 4171d32e6e Introduce -display none
New option -display none. This option differs from -nographic by not
trying to take control of stdio etc. but instead behaves as if a
graphics display is enabled, except that it doesn't show one.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-03-22 08:39:11 -05:00
Jes Sorensen 1472a95bab Introduce -display argument
This patch introduces a -display argument which consolidates the
setting of the display mode. Valid options are:
sdl/curses/default

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-03-22 08:39:11 -05:00
Corentin Chary 80e0c8c39b vnc: add a non-adaptive option
This option allow to disable adaptive behaviors in some encodings.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-02-23 16:28:29 -06:00
mst@redhat.com 5430a28fe4 vhost: force vhost off for non-MSI guests
When MSI is off, each interrupt needs to be bounced through the io
thread when it's set/cleared, so vhost-net causes more context switches and
higher CPU utilization than userspace virtio which handles networking in
the same thread.

We'll need to fix this by adding level irq support in kvm irqfd,
for now disable vhost-net in these configurations.

Added a vhostforce flag to force vhost-net back on.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-02-01 16:50:44 -06:00
Michael S. Tsirkin f157ed202e tap: safe sndbuf default
With current sndbuf default value, a blocked
target guest can prevent another guest from
transmitting any packets. While current
sndbuf value (1M) is reported to help some
UDP based workloads, the default should
be safe (0).

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-02-01 16:50:44 -06:00
Alon Levy cbcc6336ce spice: add chardev (v5)
Adding a chardev backend for spice, where spice determines what
to do with it based on the name attribute given during chardev creation.
For usage by spice vdagent in conjunction with a properly named
virtio-serial device, and future smartcard channel usage.

Example usage:
 qemu -device virtio-serial -chardev spicevmc,name=vdagent,id=vdagent \
 -device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0

v4->v5:
 * add tracing events
 * fix missing comma
 * fix help string to show debug is optional

v3->v4:
 * updated commit message

v1->v3 changes: (v2 had a wrong commit message)
 * removed spice-qemu-char.h, folded into ui/qemu-spice.h
 * removed dead IOCTL code
 * removed comment
 * removed ifdef CONFIG_SPICE from qemu-config.c and qemu-options.hx help.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2011-01-24 15:41:40 +01:00
Aurelien Jarno 818c2e1b97 Merge branch 'spice.v23.pull' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/spice/qemu
* 'spice.v23.pull' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/spice/qemu:
  vnc/spice: add set_passwd monitor command.
  vnc: support password expire
  vnc: auth reject cleanup
  spice: add qmp 'query-spice' and hmp 'info spice' commands.
  spice: connection events.
  spice: add qxl device
  spice: add qxl vgabios binary.
2010-12-27 22:59:48 +01:00
Gerd Hoffmann a19cbfb346 spice: add qxl device
qxl is a paravirtual graphics card.  The qxl device is the bridge
between the guest and the spice server (aka libspice-server).  The
spice server will send the rendering commands to the spice client, which
will actually render them.

The spice server is also able to render locally, which is done in case
the guest wants read something from video memory.  Local rendering is
also used to support display over vnc and sdl.

qxl is activated using "-vga qxl".  qxl supports multihead, additional
cards can be added via '-device qxl".

[ v2: add copyright to files                     ]
[ v2: use qemu-common.h for standard includes    ]
[ v2: create separate qxl-vga device for primary ]

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2010-12-09 14:23:24 +01:00
Mike Ryan 3a75e74c76 net/sock: option to specify local address
Add an option to specify the host IP to send multicast packets from,
when using a multicast socket for networking. The option takes an IP
address and sets the IP_MULTICAST_IF socket option, which causes the
packets to use that IP's interface as an egress.

This is useful if the host machine has several interfaces with several
virtual networks across disparate interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Mike Ryan <mikeryan@ISI.EDU>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2010-12-09 12:45:50 +02:00