Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:28:31 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating network interface in VM? Message-ID: <20081116022831.9b9ce368.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20081115221725.GA16317@panix.com> References: <20081115221725.GA16317@panix.com>
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On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:17:25 -0500, Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 in a virtual machine in > VirtualBox, running on a Linux (Debian) host. > [...] > I tried to set this up on the FreeBSD side, but I am unable to > even create the vbox0 interface: > > --- > # ifconfig vbox0 create > ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Invalid argument > --- > I'm not sure, but I think what you're searching for would be to have VB "create" a NIC substitute for the FreeBSD guest OS. When you said, you could reach network from out of the FreeBSD VB, a virtual network adapter. Which interface did you use from within FreeBSD? As far as I know, there's no vbox (pseudo)interface driver in FreeBSD, that's why the ifconfig create command returned an error. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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