From: Peter Foley <pefoley@google.com>
To: passt-dev@passt.top
Cc: Felix Wu <flwu@google.com>
Subject: Support for equivalent to slirp guestfwd
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:35:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAAKUPPEG3EpR5Kow8kb3Gmvjx=TcL+Jwh7vP+OXa5sMpRCdNA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
I'm investigating migrating Google-internal uses of qemu's slirp-based
networking to passt.
One major gap I've discovered is the apparent lack of support in passt for
something like the "guestfwd" flag the slirp network backend handles:
https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/invocation.html
This allows us to open outbound connections from the VM to an external
service listening on a known port.
As far as I can tell, passt's tcp-ports and udp-ports flags appear to map
to slirp's hostfwd flags, only allowing traffic to flow into the VM.
Am I missing something? If this functionality indeed isn't supported, are
there plans to add it?
Thanks,
Peter Foley
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-25 22:35 UTC|newest]
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2026-02-25 22:35 Peter Foley [this message]
2026-02-26 12:47 ` Stefano Brivio
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