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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:17:50 -0600
From: Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com>
To: Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws>
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	Juergen Lock <vbox-devel-l@jelal.kn-bremen.de>, vbox-dev@virtualbox.org
Subject: Re: vbox (and qemu) tap/vboxnetflt networking; bridging vs wifi
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On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:18:33 +1030, Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 19:58 +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>>  The only downside of doing it this way is the tap interface loses
>> its IP when vbox closes it and the ifup/down script feature has been
>> removed from vbox so you need to rerun the `ifconfig tap0 ...' each
>> time before you start the guest again.  (Maybe that can be avoided
>> if you set net.link.tap.up_on_open=1, put only the tap interface on
>> an if_bridge and give that bridge interface the IP instead, I haven't
>> tried.)
> 
> FYI, I just tried this and it appears to work. That is, with the
> following:
> 
>         ==> /boot/loader.conf <==
>         if_tap_load="YES"
>         vboxdrv_load="YES"
>         
>         ==> /etc/sysctl.conf <==
>         net.link.tap.user_open=1
>         net.link.tap.up_on_open=1
>         net.link.ether.inet.proxyall=1
>         
>         ==> /etc/rc.conf <==
>         cloned_interfaces="bridge0 tap0 tap1"
>         ifconfig_bridge0="addm tap0 addm tap1 192.168.1.121/29"
>         gateway_enable="YES"
>         
> and with the VM network adapters configured as bridged to the tapX
> devices, the guest em0 interfaces configured with IP addresses in the
> bridge0's subnet and with default routes to the bridge0 ip, networking
> seems to come up fine in the guests. (I'm still starting the VMs
> manually so it hasn't been verified in fully autonomous startup.)
> 
> 
> Wayne
> 

This is something that should be posted to the wiki if it's validated by
someone else.

Rusty Nejdl