From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 20 15:44:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02CDA106566C for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:44:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ws@au.dyndns.ws) Received: from ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA108FC0A for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:44:21 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AukAAGOyVkuWZWdv/2dsb2JhbAAI2WKENgQ Received: from ppp103-111.static.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.144]) ([150.101.103.111]) by ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2010 02:14:18 +1030 From: Wayne Sierke To: freebsd-emulation In-Reply-To: <1263998913.1862.29543.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse> References: <20100107185808.GA16577@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <1263998913.1862.29543.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ASCII" Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:14:16 +1030 Message-ID: <1264002256.1862.29662.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: vbox (and qemu) tap/vboxnetflt networking; bridging vs wifi X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:44:22 -0000 On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 01:18 +1030, Wayne Sierke 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.) And just for completeness, for anyone looking for help in getting this set up, also with this: ==> /etc/devfs.conf <== own tap0 root:vboxusers perm tap0 0660 own tap1 root:vboxusers perm tap1 0660