Re: [zones-discuss] VirtualBox bridge nic in a zone

[Benji]

I got it to work! Thank you for the explanation! I could not have figured this 
one out by myself!
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[zones-discuss] VirtualBox bridge nic in a zone

[Benji]

Hi,

I'm having trouble running a VM inside a zone where the VM's network interface 
is configured as a bridge over the VNIC I created for the zone. Basically, the 
zone is setup as being ip-exclusive over a VNIC. Inside the zone, I can 
ping/resolve etc. If I run the VM with NAT, it works fine. When I set the VM as 
using a bride connection over the zone's VNIC, the VM (Windows 7) properly gets 
an IP from my DHCP server, but then loses connection.

In the logs of the global zone, I can see the following regarding VirtualBox:

vboxNetFltSolarisAttachIp4: Warning: seems 'vboxzone0' is unplumbed.

Here, vboxzone0 is the VNIC assigned to the zone VirtualBox is running in.

My setup is snv_134.

Has anyone ran a VM setup with a bridge connection inside a zone? Any help 
greatly appreciated!
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Re: [zones-discuss] VirtualBox bridge nic in a zone

[Benji]

Hi John,

Thanks for the prompt reply. Being new to zones, would you mind explaining a 
bit more the steps required to accomplish this?

I created a second VNIC, vboxzone1, inside the global zone. I added that second 
VNIC to the non global zone using zonecfg - add net - set physical=vboxzone1. 
I then unplumbed it since zoneadm was complaining it was in use in the global 
zone (skipping network interface 'vboxzone1' which is used in the global 
zone). You mentioned it needs to be plumbed, but I'm not sure how to 
accomplish that. I also added a new file '/etc/hostname.vboxzone1' inside the 
zone with 'vboxzone' and 'down' inside of it.

Now, inside the zone I see the 2 VNICs, but both of them have the same ip. You 
mentioned setting the ethernet addess to the VNICs. What do you mean by this? 

Thanks for your help!
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Re: [zones-discuss] VirtualBox bridge nic in a zone

[John D Groenveld]

In message 547133454.11296012653482.JavaMail.Twebapp@sf-app1, Benji writes:
I created a second VNIC, vboxzone1, inside the global zone. I added that secon

By VNIC, I meant Crossbow VNIC, not VirtualBox NIC.

In global:
# dladm create-etherstub etherstub0
# dladm create-vnic vnic0
# dladm create-vnic vnic1
# dladm create-vnic vnic2
# cat EOF/etc/hostname.vnic0
10.0.0.1
# cat EOF/etc/ipf/ipnat.conf
map e1000g0 10.0.0.0/24 - 0/32 portmap tcp/udp auto
map e1000g0 10.0.0.0/24 - 0/32
# zonecfg -z win7zone export
create -b
set zonepath=/var/opt/zones/win7zone
set brand=ipkg
set autoboot=true
set ip-type=exclusive
add net
set physical=vnic1
end
add net
set physical=vnic2
end
add device
set match=/dev/vboxdrv
end
add device
set match=/dev/vboxusbmon
end

In non-global winz7zone:
# cat /etc/hostname.vnic1
10.0.0.2
# cat /etc/hostname.vnic2
10.0.0.3
down
# cat /etc/defaultrouter
10.0.0.1
# ifconfig vnic2

Now configure your VBox to use the host's vnic2 in bridged mode and
set its ethernet address to the same per page 88 of the VBox manual.

John
groenv...@acm.org

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