The user in tunctl -t tap1 -u <user>
is the user (i.e. login name) who will be running VirtualBox and accessing the tap interface. You need to specify this because the tap kernel driver does additional security checks over and above the standard Unix filesystem ones. We do have an installer which should work on nearly all distributions, as long as you do not have a version of VirtualBox installed using another method. You might want to give that a try. It installs to the /opt tree, which is what the LSB recommends for third party software to avoid conflicts with the packaging system, and it puts symlinks into /usr/bin. Regards, Michael Richard wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:55:17 +0200 > Michael Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello Richard, >> >> Just to be sure: I take it that you created tap1 using the tunctl >> utility. Did you make it accessible to your user using that utility? >> And did you specify the name of the device in the VM configuration? >> >> Other than that, you might want to go through the steps in the user >> manual in the host interface networking section (I take it that you >> are using the VirtualBox packages from virtualbox.org which include >> the manual). >> >> Regards, >> >> Michael >> > I'm using 1.5.0_OSE, virtualbox-1.5.0-6mdv2008.0 > without the built in manual, I'm using the manual from > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/End-user_documentation > the commands VBoxAddIF and others dont exist on this system, and it s > very vaugue as to what the user should be when tuctl is used to create > the tap device. > > ie. what should the user be in this line :- > tunctl -t tap1 -u <user> > > I've myself as a user as well as vbox, I've created a group > "vboxusers" and made /dev/net/tun part of that group. > I've followed the advance networking howto > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Advanced_Networking_Linux. > > I've noted there is a binary available for MDV2007.1 which is version > 1.5.2, however the version distributed with MDV2008 is 1.5.0. > I don't want to load the MDV2007.1 binary as the headers will point to > an old distribution. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
