[Lguest] --sharenet feature details

[Rusty Russell]

On Friday 07 March 2008 22:14:00 salil kanitkar wrote:
> Could anybody elaborate more on this feature??
> I know that it is added in device list of guest in setup_net_file() without
> registering input output handlers.
> so how exactly can we setup the interguest network using this sharenet file
> and from where to access the sharenet file..

Note that this feature was dropped in 2.6.24.

It works by supplying a file to all the lguests you want on the network the 
same file.  It will create the file if it doesn't exist.

They will then be able to send packets to each other.

Hope this helps,
Rusty.