Fabrice Bellard wrote:
Jan Marten Simons wrote:
I was asking for an integrated virtual FTP server (about 14 months
ago). [snipped]
My preference would be for an SMB server or NFS server fully
integrated in slirp.
A fully integrated NFS server would be quite simple to implement but
it would not easily work with windows guests.
At first glance, by looking at the smbfs code in the Linux kernel, an
SMB server compatible with Linux guests would be as easy to write as
an NFS server. But being compatible with Windows guests would be more
difficult and might lead to a rewrite of Samba !
Regards,
Fabrice.
I'm still thinking FTP would be a useful alternative as it's more
low-level. There is hardly any OS with network capabilities with no FTP
client availiable. Then the FTP server in qemu would only need to
support a very basic set of features (no need for user management,
either passive or active mode depending on what's easier to implement).
Such a tiny server (I expect about 3k of source code) would not bloat
qemu as much as reimplementing samba inside.
So I think that internal SMB and NFS servers are another nice idea but
FTP is still the most common protocol (esp. for 'weird' guests).
With regards,
Jan
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