Qemu: bridging on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Scott Robbins wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 06:51:30AM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
>
>>
>> I am afraid I need some help to set up networking for
>> 	qemu-0.9.1 on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE amd64 .
>
> I did a howto on this awhile back.  However, these days, I don't use
> qemu too much, so I'm no longer sure how much of it is still applicable.
>
> Therefore, untested for months, but it's actually mentioned in the
> pkg-message for qemu.
>
> http://forums.bsdnexus.com/viewtopic.php?id=1563
>
> It's untested for some time, but back when 7.0 was CURRENT, it worked
> like a charm, thanks to the help of some folks on this list (who are
> thanked in the howto.)
Thanks a lot, but I still have got the same problems - and you 
are right, last summer, or so, everything worked like a charm, 
but now it doesn't anymore.

So I still need advice for (today's) 7.0-STABLE :(


>

>> As /etc/qemu-ifup (Permissions 755) I use
>>         #!bin/sh
>>         ifconfig ${1} 0.0.0.0
>>
> Even with 755 permissions, I don't know if it would work, since it's
> doing ifconfig which will require root privilege.  Use sudo in the
> ifconfig part.
I am doing all this as root.


Greetings,

Uli.

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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany