Hi Ben, Thanks for updating the Networking page. Even though I had a working bridge, I decided to just use a tap coupled with a -net user to gain access to the internet.
One thing this is puzzling me is that this command: ./sol_qemu_tap freebsd62.sh can only be executed by root. If i try to execute it with another user I get a failure to allocate the tap driver which I assume is caused by lack of permission to access the device. This is quote in the networking page: "What happens behind the scenes is that sol_qemu_tap invokes root privileges, creates the TAP device, and calls /etc/qemu-ifup with the name of the TAP device, which sets the network properties of the TAP. When that is complete, sol_qemu_tap drops the permissions to the calling user and invokes the shell script passed in via the first parameter." Given that, I assumed that I could execute Qemu from a non-root user. Am I misunderstanding, am I misconfigured, or is there something missing from the instructions? Thanks! John -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
