On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:31:31 -0600, Glenn Washburn wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm just now noticing that earlier this year obsolete networking > transports were removed (commit 65eaac591b75). This included SLiRP, > which was to my knowledge the only transport that supported network > access as an unprivileged user (no privileged access needed to setup > the transport either). Am I wrong about that? If not, I'm curious as to > why functionality that could not be achieved by other means was > dropped? And if there are any work arounds? I can understand why other > transports that need privileged access to setup, but were inferior to > other existing transports would be removed. I write this as someone who > is currently using the SLiRP transport.
vec also supports networking without privileged access: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.17/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.html#vde-vector-transport https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ Regards, Tiwei
