Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:22:00 +0800 From: Trent Nelson <nelsont@switch.aust.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: archie@dellroad.org Subject: VMware and netgraph -- hosting a Linux guest OS in FreeBSD. Message-ID: <20011017152200.A7817@freebsd06.udt>
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[ Archie, I've CC'd you 'cause your name continuously came up
when I was trolling the 'net trying to figure this out. ]
I'm running FreeBSD 4.3 and VMware 2.0.3 and I'm trying hopelessly
to set up networking between the FreeBSD host and the Linux (RedHat
6.2) guest OS.
Instead of obfuscating the e-mail with all the various things I've
tried (in terms of host/guest IP configurations) -- I'll just state
what my situation is and what I'd like to do.
- My FreeBSD box (freebsd06) is connected to my work LAN. We use
the 10.0.2/24 class. My IP is 10.0.2.56 and our default gate-
way is 10.0.2.1.
- I'd like the Linux machine (linux06) to be visible on the LAN as
10.0.2.116.
The following snippets are from the configuration files I'm assuming
are pertinent to getting this working. Question marks represent
values I'm not sure what to set to -- values that I've specified
represent what I *think* to be the needed/correct value.
On freebsd06:
1. ~/vmware/linux/linux.cfg
# Networking
ethernet0.present = TRUE
ethernet0.connectionType = hostOnly
# Hints
ethernet0.vnet = /dev/vmnet1
2. /usr/local/etc/vmware/config
vmnet1.HostOnlyAddress = ?
vmnet1.HostOnlyNetMask = ?
3. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware.sh
networking=1
bridged=YES
bridge_interface=fxp0
On linux06:
4. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
(This represents the configuration file for the AMD
``pcnet32'' NIC VMware provides the guest OS)
DEVICE = eth0
BOOTPROTO = static
IPADDR = ?
NETMASK = ?
GATEWAY = ?
HOSTNAME = linux06.udt
DOMAIN = udt
I've been lost up until now 'cause of FreeBSD's use of netgraph to
do the bridging -- it makes it extremely hard to find any examples
and tends to make all VMware related help quite misleading.
Thanks in advance.
Trent.
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