Help configuring qemu networking tap mode

[Phusion]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/7/09, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Doug Barton wrote:
>>  > Doug Barton wrote:
>>  >> So I'm past the Network Install phase and we're now finalizing the
>>  >> install. :)
>>  >
>>  > Well, bad news ... the install is finished, but networking is not
>>  > working. If I do user mode networking it gets an IP address but can't
>>  > see the outside world. If I follow your instructions from the previous
>>  > e-mail it never gets an IP address at all, the network status thing
>>  > says "limited or no connectivity."
>>
>>
>> Turns out that there is a page on the wiki that has some good
>>  suggestions, although it could use a bit of tweaking. I got networking
>>  up by doing this in the host:
>>
> The How To was based on  that wiki page and several others.  Plus my
> own creation of not depending on the qemu startup/shutdown scripts to
> add/remove the tap device to/from the bridge.
>
>>  myif=bge0
>>
>>  ifconfig tap create
>>  ifconfig bridge create
>>  ifconfig bridge0 addm tap0 addm $myif up
>>
> As you found out you need to add your hosts interface (bge0, rl0) to the bridge.
>
>>  Then I was able to start qemu with the tap command line and now
>>  networking works.
>>
> I was at work and couldn't answer your early questions, but it is good
> to hear that  you were able to make it work.
>
> On 3/7/09, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>  Finally it looks to me like I'll need to set up samba on the host if I
>>  want the XP guest to have access to files that are not in the image,
>>  correct? The man page mentions the -smb option for the user mode
>>  network stack, will that work for tap too?
>>
> You'll need to setup samba to allow the XP guest access to the files
> on the host system.  I haven't tried the -smb option under a tap
> setup, it might work.
>
> Scot
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I am curious how your local firewall configuration looks on the host
operating system. I am using pf firewall. Let me know.

Phusion