tun/tap and qemu

Igor Robul igorr at speechpro.com
Mon Oct 24 06:16:32 PDT 2005


dick hoogendijk wrote:

>Qemu uses user-net network stack if NO tun/tap network init script is
>found. The example on their website is about linux.
>
>
>Can someone shine some light on this matter?
>
>If tun/tap is difficult or not adviced, how can I make my 10.0.0.x
>machines show themselves on my mail 192.168.11.xx network?
>
>  
>
On FreeBSD qemu uses "tap" device. Just patch
/usr/src/sys/net/if_tap.c for non-root access, then recompile it and
load if_tap module.

Make sure /dev/tap* have correct permissions



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