From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 27 08:23:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9DDA106566B for ; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:23:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65E118FC18 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1NDw6v-0001jK-3N>; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:23:25 +0100 Received: from telesto.geoinf.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.86.198]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1NDw6v-0004Fx-1e>; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:23:25 +0100 Message-ID: <4B0F8CA7.1080009@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:24:07 +0000 From: "O. Hartmann" Organization: Freie =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Universit=E4t_Berlin?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091126) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 130.133.86.198 Subject: VirtualBox: No network connectivity. Weird vboxnetflt.ko/vboxnetadp.ko behaviour X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:23:26 -0000 Running a FreeBSD 8.0-REL/amd64 box with a quad core CPU and 8 GB of ram I intended also to operate Windows XP_32 within VirtualBox. So far, VirtualBox is up and running, as well as Windows XP. But I do not have network connectivity. Befor going deeper into my config I will report some strange behaviour of needed kernel modules vboxnetflt.ko vboxnetadp.ko Both are needed for networking on VirtualBox and they get loaded at startup vi /boot/loader.conf. But to have a working network, I have to unload and then reload them, since if they get loaded at startup, networking is broken in virtual box! My FreeBSD-based config is simple. I have a bridged NIC (msk0), a tap0 device which is member of the bridge. But follwoing setups known from Qemu with tap0 do not work. So far. On Windows XP side I use as 'physical' device PCnet FAST III (doesn't matter whether it is II or III), 'Attached to' is 'Bridged adapter' and 'Name' is either msk0 or tap0, where only mask0 shows activity. My virtual box does have its own regular IP, so I tried setting the IP of Windows's adapter to this and after this attempt failed, I set it to the very same of the host. I never get a running network with this. I also switched off (or making it transparent) the filtering facility (pf), but with no effect. Has anybody similar trouble? Thanks, Oliver