Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:53:29 +0100 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vbox (and qemu) tap/vboxnetflt networking; bridging vs wifi Message-ID: <20100113175329.GA13656@triton8.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <20100107185808.GA16577@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <20100107185808.GA16577@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
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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
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