> Hi All, > > I've recently installed QEMU on Solaris 10 x86 from > opensolaris > (http://opensolaris.org/os/project/qemu/downloads/SUNW > qemu-0.8.2_REV_2006.10.18-sol10-i386-opt.pkg.bz2)
> I've built an XP client, but I'm struggling to > determine the best options for networking. > > Ideally, I'd like to be able to have either: > an XP QEMU guest pingable from the QEMU host only AFAIK, this is not doable with the current code base. Martin incorporated some patches I got from another Sun Qemu afficiando into the original blastwave Qemu that used libpcap to make this work, but we never got those patches to the main Qemu CVS archive, and I don't think Martin has had a chance to integrate those patches into the current code. > > or > an XP QEMU guest pingable from any host. > don't want to have to mess around port forwarding to > achieve this if possible. Well, with the current slirp implementation, ICMP is not passable unless you want to write some code to make that work. I'm not even sure you could pass ICMP using the slirp stack, but not being a networking expert, I don't know this for sure. > > I understand this _may_ be possible using a tap > device ? > > I have installed the tun/tap driver & openvpn from > http://www.whiteboard.ne.jp/~admin2/tuntap/ > But I'm struggling to find out how to configure this. Having done this with a linux host using the bridging tools, this is so simple. Unfortunately, Solaris doesn't appear to have the same bridging capabilities, and even with the tun/tap patches, bridging is a bit dicey, though it did work in the 0.7.0 Qemu that appeared on blastwave. IIRC, if you were bridging with that version, the host couldn't contact the guest. Ben -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
