| Package | vmnet |
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| Priority | Priority |
| Section | utils |
| Installed-Size | 84 |
| Maintainer | Matt Zimmerman |
| Architecture | i386 |
| Version | 0.4-1 |
| Depends | libc6 (>= 2.2.2-2) |
| Filename | pool/main/v/vmnet/vmnet_0.4-1_i386.deb |
| Size | 10380 |
| MD5sum | 1fa54dbf1aa2e66f34fc403af4417e69 |
| Description | A simple virtual networking program |
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| This program has been written to implement virtual networking
support for the Hercules S/390 simulator, but it is intentionally
generic in its functionality, so any other virtual machine
simulator/emulator program could potentially use it.
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The function is quite simple:
- The virtual machine simulator program starts VMnet and talks
the SLIP protocol with it over stdin/out.
- VMnet sets up a SLIP connection on the host system, talking over a
pseudo-tty to the VMnet program.
- Once things have been set up, VMnet simply copies the data streams
between stdin/out and the SLIP psuedo-tty in both directions.
Thus, the virtual machine has a direct SLIP connection with the host,
without needing to worry about root privileges, pseudo-ttys, access
rights, etc.
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