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Qemu Networking

imported from wiki, 5 January 2006

NAT under Qemu

When using user-net Qemu behaves as if it was behind a firewall which blocks all incoming connections. You can use a DHCP client to automatically configure the network for the guest OS. Under QEMU 0.7.2 and below using the option

-user-net

or QEMU 0.8.0 and above (you don’t need to specify this any more because it’s actually the default)

-net nic -net user

or if you have no tun/tap init script, Qemu uses a completely user mode network stack (you don’t need root privileges to use the virtual network). The virtual network configuration is the following:

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LIR Cand Xine

imported from wiki, 1 January 2006

LIRC

The Linux software for dealing with infra-red remote controls is LIRC. LIRC has a number of components which work together to allow programs to respond to the buttons on a remote handset.

Kernel module

First, you need a LIRC kernel module for the receiver that you have. For example, the lirc_streamzap module works with the Streamzap remote control. Inserting this module into the kernel with modprobe will also load the core lirc_dev module. The main distributions ship a selection of lirc driver modules which match their pre-compiled kernels.

The kernel module communicates with [continued…]

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