Qemu: bridging on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

Great thanks to Juergen, Per and Scott (ordered alphabetically)!

For the records:
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Juergen Lock wrote:

> 1. Preparation:
>
> I added
> 	perm    tap0    0660
> to /etc/devfs.conf (my user is in wheel, if yours isnt maybe do
> 	own     tap0 	john:john
> like in the howto)
>
> 2. after that, or later after reboot, as root:
> 	kldload aio kqemu if_bridge if_tap
> 	sysctl net.link.tap.up_on_open=1
> 	sysctl net.link.tap.user_open=1
> 	/etc/rc.d/devfs restart
> 	touch /dev/tap0
> 	ifconfig bridge0 create
> 	ifconfig bridge0 addm em0
> 	ifconfig bridge0 addm tap0
> 	ifconfig bridge0 up
> (as you can see that box' physical nic is an em(4), use whatever yours is)
>
> 3. now start qemu as user:
> 	qemu-system-x86_64 -m 256 -cdrom
> 		7.0-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso -net nic -net
> 		tap,ifname=tap0,script=/usr/bin/true -boot d
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's it: I need
 	-net tap,script=/usr/bin/true

I never had thought about that. I have tried
 	script=/etc/qemu-ifup
but to set it to true ... !?!

Again thank you,

Uli.

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Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany