From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 13 18:01:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE9B106568D for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:01:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEFA68FC0A for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:01:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id DCE0B1E0076D; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:01:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from triton8.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0DHrTwB013847; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:53:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox@triton8.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0DHrTKn013846; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:53:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox) From: Juergen Lock Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:53:29 +0100 To: Juergen Lock Message-ID: <20100113175329.GA13656@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <20100107185808.GA16577@triton8.kn-bremen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100107185808.GA16577@triton8.kn-bremen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vbox (and qemu) tap/vboxnetflt networking; bridging vs wifi X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:01:47 -0000 On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:58:08PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > Hi! > > As noted earlier on freebsd-emulation, wifi users have a problem when > they want to expose a VM guest on their lan: simply bridging it to the > wifi interface usually doesn't work because hosts on wifi can only use a > single mac address. As I now found out, vbox on (at least) Linux/Windows > hosts attempts to work around this issue by implementing a shared mac > feature that gets enabled if you use bridged mode on a wifi nic there, > so I tried enabling that for FreeBSD hosts too: > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/vbox/patch-sharedmac.txt > (patches are under MIT license and for vbox 3.1.2 as featured in the > recent ports CFT, I haven't checked if they also apply to the older > version still in ports) - and Beat tested that yesterday since I don't > have wifi here myself, he couldn't get it working properly. Maybe the > FreeBSD vboxnetflt code needs to be adjusted for this too? >[...] Indeed it had to (thankx to aeichner from sun who found and fixed the remaining bug! :) - i.e. bridged mode on wifi should now work in the emulators/virtualbox-ose* update that beat committed earlier today: http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=201001130803.o0D83HFe012322@repoman.freebsd.org Enjoy, :) Juergen