Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 18:51:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: matheus@eternamente.info Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Subject: Re: VirtualBox NAT network works or not? Message-ID: <200908081651.n78GpDjV004629@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <f01e4302942811415e4533fd29d7818e.squirrel@10.1.1.10> References: <op.uxrdsge29aq2h7@localhost>
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In article <f01e4302942811415e4533fd29d7818e.squirrel@10.1.1.10> you write: >On Tue, July 28, 2009 00:39, Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have installed VirtualBox and very surpised about that it's very fast. >> Very nice! >> >> But I have a problem with NAT network and uses DHCP in guest. It does not >> work. The host is yesterday -CURRENT and very latest installed ports with >> libtool 2.2. I don't know how I can debug it. I have decided to install >> VirtualBox in Windows 7 and I have setup very same exactly how I do with >> guest of FreeBSD 6.4. It works perfect. The only difference is that >> VirtualBox version is 3.x in Windows and 2.x in -CURRENT. It is either bug >> or not ready? I have tried to disable VT-x and it makes no difference. I >> have tried all network adapter and no difference. > I've had nat mode problems too (guests randomly failing to dhcp on the first attempt, have to manually run `dhclient eth0' a second time in the guest), and the official vbox changelog, http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog mentions NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604) for their 3.0.4 release too, so maybe we just need to wait for these fixes to reach the FreeBSD port... >I've been using Vbox 3 in FreeBSD for a bit more of a week now, and it is >doing what I want it to. > >the svn > >svn co >http://svn.bluelife.at/projects/packages/blueports/emulators/virtualbox > >I can use nat, but still trying to figure out how to reach the vm using >network. if anyone has any leads. so far, the best thing I think is to >make a reverse tunnel using ssh. > vbox' nat mode, like qemu's, can map individual guest ports to ones on the host (port forwarding), see here for details: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#networking-nat >matheus > >ps: I can't use my amd64 vm's if not from 7.2-STABLE. -CURRENT is no good >in here, tested three diff machines by now. I have problems parsing this, :) you mean amd64 guests stopped working on -current? Guess I should test that here... HTH, Juergen
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