Creating network interface in VM?
I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 in a virtual machine in VirtualBox, running on a Linux (Debian) host. I was able to set up everything quite easily, and originally set up networking over NAT. But after some questions on the VB mailing list about accessing the guest from the host (so I can use the FreeBSD VM as a test server from my host), I decided to set up Host Interface Networking (without bridging, as I only want the VM visible to the host, not the rest of the network). The instructions I was following were pretty straightforward, though they were for a Linux guest: --- auto vbox0 iface vbox0 inet static address 192.168.5.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 --- is the setup for the Linux host, and the guest is supposed to be the same thing with a different IP address. Using this alone, I was already able to reach the Linux host from my FreeBSD VM. 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 --- Googling hasn't been much help. How do I get this done? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating network interface in VM?
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:17:25 -0500, Jesse Sheidlower [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating network interface in VM?
Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:17:25 -0500, Jesse Sheidlower [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. The guest machine is always going to use the virtual driver provided by virtualbox, which is configured through the virtualbox gui control before you start the machine. I suggest trying to configure that interface, not vbox0. vbox0 is an interface on the host OS. This howto from Ubuntu may help you out; notice that everything is configured on the host machine, the guest machine has no real differences: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox#Networking signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Creating network interface in VM?
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:52:18PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:17:25 -0500, Jesse Sheidlower [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. The guest machine is always going to use the virtual driver provided by virtualbox, which is configured through the virtualbox gui control before you start the machine. I suggest trying to configure that interface, not vbox0. vbox0 is an interface on the host OS. Ah, of course. That makes total sense, sorry I didn't grok this before. One of the virtual network cards worked fine, using the le0 driver, so I set up the le0 driver to use NAT to reach the outside, and then configured VB to use the same kind of virtual network card to run HIF networking, and set up the le1 driver in my FreeBSD machine at the appropriate addresses. Now everything works: I can reach the outside via the le0 driver and I can reach to and from my host with the le1 driver. Thanks! Jesse Sheidlower ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
