Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 28 May 2009 22:37:46 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        rjk@wintek.com
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take 4
Message-ID:  <200905282238.06757.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <4A1E85B1.80408@wintek.com>
References:  <20090527134343.GB1104@bsdcrew.de> <200905282153.27850.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <4A1E85B1.80408@wintek.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart3309338.zd2g2JcVO7
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline

On Thu, 28 May 2009, Richard Kuhns wrote:
> Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 May 2009, Richard Kuhns wrote:
> >> NAT host port 2222 to ssh (22) in virtual machine 'psyche'.
> >> Do this while the VM isn't running.
> >>
> >> $ VBoxManage setextradata psyche \
> >>
> >> "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/Protocol" TCP
> >> $ VBoxManage setextradata psyche \
> >>
> >> "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/GuestPort" 22
> >> $ VBoxManage setextradata psyche \
> >>
> >> "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/HostPort" 2222
> >>
> >> Now you can just 'ssh -p 2222 localhost' to get into that
> >> particular VM.
> >
> > Ah that is nice, however I picked the Intel controller.. How do I
> > work out the magic name for that? getextradata doesn't list
> > anything :(
>
> s/pcnet/e1000/

Ahah, I tried 82540EM..

> According to the user manual, anyhow. So far the only VMs I've

I guess I should read that :)

> created are running XP and a couple of Linux distros, and I haven't
> changed controllers.

I put Windows in one and I though an e1000 would be nicer, although I=20
must confess I've hardly thrashed it :)

> I'll say again that this port has really been a godsend. I've used
> VMware Workstation on Windows XP in the past, but being able to stick
> to FreeBSD has greatly simplified my life. Now my Windoze box can go
> back to being used for the occasional game, as God intended.

Heh indeed, it's handy.
Good for running some legacy code too..

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

--nextPart3309338.zd2g2JcVO7
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc 
Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQBKHoy25ZPcIHs/zowRArodAJ4gxaA13GX+byd+GrPPYwabvIc/fgCfa5tf
q8wiWRSaCvcbU75clLAxxF8=
=lv1w
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--nextPart3309338.zd2g2JcVO7--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200905282238.06757.doconnor>