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Stefano Brivio ca2749e1bd passt: Relicense to GPL 2.0, or any later version
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protection offered by the AGPL over the GPL, because it's not
suitable to be executed over a computer network.

Further, restricting the distribution under the version 3 of the GPL
wouldn't provide any practical advantage either, as long as the passt
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dilemmas.

Change licensing terms to the GNU General Public License Version 2,
or any later version, with written permission from all current and
past contributors, namely: myself, David Gibson, Laine Stump, Andrea
Bolognani, Paul Holzinger, Richard W.M. Jones, Chris Kuhn, Florian
Weimer, Giuseppe Scrivano, Stefan Hajnoczi, and Vasiliy Ulyanov.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2023-04-06 18:00:33 +02:00

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.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
.\" Copyright (c) 2020-2021 Red Hat GmbH
.\" Author: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
.TH qrap 1
.SH NAME
.B qrap
\- temporary qemu wrapper connecting UNIX domain socket to file descriptor
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B qrap
[\fIFDNUM\fR \fIQEMU_CMD\fR] [\fIQEMU_ARG\fR]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBqrap\fR is a wrapper, designed specifically for usage with \fBqemu\fR(1) and
\fBpasst\fR(1), connecting a UNIX domain socket to a file descriptor, and
running \fBqemu\fR(1) with given arguments.
A running instance of \fBpasst\fR(1) is probed checking for UNIX domain sockets,
answering a dummy ARP request, with names starting from
\fI/tmp/passt_1.socket\fR up to \fI/tmp/passt_64.socket\fR.
If first and second arguments are not a socket number and a command, that is,
respectively, \fIFDNUM\fR and \fIQEMU_CMD\fR, \fBqrap\fR will try to locate a
qemu executable in \fBPATH\fR and patch the command line to specify a network
device and a \fInetdev\fR back-end for usage with \fBpasst\fR(1).
If \fBqrap\fR patches the command line, it will remove any potentially
conflicting network device, that is, any \fI-netdev\fR or \fI-net\fR option, or
any \fI-device\fR option with argument starting with \fIvirtio-net-pci,\fR,
\fIvirtio-net-ccw,\fR, \fIe1000,\fR, \fIe1000e,\fR, or \fIrtl8139,\fR.
.SH EXAMPLES
.BR "Start qemu explicitly passing its command name and a socket number"
.RS
.nf
$ ./qrap 5 kvm test.qcow2 -m 1024 -display none -nodefaults -nographic -net socket,fd=5 -net nic,model=virtio
.fi
.RE
.BR "Start qemu without command name and socket number, patching arguments"
.RS
.nf
$ ./qrap test.qcow2 -m 1024 -display none -nodefaults -nographic
.fi
.RE
.SH NOTES
This wrapper is temporary: qemu commit 13c6be96618c ("net: stream: add unix
socket") introduces native AF_UNIX socket support, and it should be included in
qemu starting from the 7.2 release. It will be around for a little bit longer to
give users enough time to switch.
.SH AUTHOR
Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
.SH REPORTING BUGS
No public bug tracker is available at this time. For the moment being, report
issues to Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2020-2021 Red Hat GmbH.
\fBqrap\fR is free software: you can redistribute is and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
.SH SEE ALSO
\fBqemu\fR(1), \fBpasst\fR(1).
High-level documentation is available at https://passt.top/passt/about/.