Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 02:40:03 -0600 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help configuring qemu networking tap mode Message-ID: <790a9fff0903080040j7f8548e0ue1d382afcdb74cbe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49B33157.9040106@FreeBSD.org> References: <790a9fff0903070442v66de9f4ar140cf6e2a6f716ac@mail.gmail.com> <49B2F950.9010803@FreeBSD.org> <49B2FE65.6000009@FreeBSD.org> <49B30D19.2090203@FreeBSD.org> <49B33157.9040106@FreeBSD.org>
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On 3/7/09, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > > Doug Barton wrote: > >> So I'm past the Network Install phase and we're now finalizing the > >> install. :) > > > > Well, bad news ... the install is finished, but networking is not > > working. If I do user mode networking it gets an IP address but can't > > see the outside world. If I follow your instructions from the previous > > e-mail it never gets an IP address at all, the network status thing > > says "limited or no connectivity." > > > Turns out that there is a page on the wiki that has some good > suggestions, although it could use a bit of tweaking. I got networking > up by doing this in the host: > The How To was based on that wiki page and several others. Plus my own creation of not depending on the qemu startup/shutdown scripts to add/remove the tap device to/from the bridge. > myif=bge0 > > ifconfig tap create > ifconfig bridge create > ifconfig bridge0 addm tap0 addm $myif up > As you found out you need to add your hosts interface (bge0, rl0) to the bridge. > Then I was able to start qemu with the tap command line and now > networking works. > I was at work and couldn't answer your early questions, but it is good to hear that you were able to make it work. On 3/7/09, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > Finally it looks to me like I'll need to set up samba on the host if I > want the XP guest to have access to files that are not in the image, > correct? The man page mentions the -smb option for the user mode > network stack, will that work for tap too? > You'll need to setup samba to allow the XP guest access to the files on the host system. I haven't tried the -smb option under a tap setup, it might work. Scot
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