Software for virtualisation for FreeBSD needed

[Marc G. Fournier]

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Okay, *now* I'm intrigued ... can you recommend a good 'setup guide' for qemu 
under FreeBSD?  Or, a good generic one?

- --On Friday, October 17, 2008 22:38:04 -0400 "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" 
<gaijin.k at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 21:28 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> - --On Friday, October 17, 2008 08:05:14 -0400 "Alexandre \"Sunny\"
>> Kovalenko"  <gaijin.k at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I am using VMware extensively on Linux and Windows hosts and QEMU on
>> > FreeBSD host (with Windows, Linux and OpenSolaris guests)
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>> Can you run multiple guest QEMU environments simultaneously?  With
>> networking?
> Yes. <tentative>Yes.</tentative> ;)
>
> I can definitely run multiple QEMU guests simultaneously. Did you have
> any problems doing that?
>
> Now, networking part is slightly trickier to answer. Let me try to map
> this into VMware experience:
>
> -- assigning IP addresses. I am doing static configurations. It Should
> Not Be Hard (sm) to beat isc-dhcp into serving different address ranges
> to different tapX, but I have not done it.
>
> -- guest-to-guest internal networking. Easy: you have separate tapX with
> their separate IP addresses, as long as you have
> net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 set, it "just works".
>
> -- nat-to-outside-world. Slightly harder, but doable:
>   sunny:RabbitsDen>cat pf.nat.conf
>   # Internal interfaces (for QEMU and or Bluetooth clients)
>   int_if_0 = "tap0"
>   int_if_1 = "tap1"
>
>   # Private network for QEMU and Bluetooth clients
>   private_network_0 = $int_if_0:network
>   private_network_1 = $int_if_1:network
>
>   # External interface (if we are providing NAT for the clients above)
>   ext_if = "ath0"
>
>   # Provide NAT services for private clients
>   nat on $ext_if from $private_network_0 to any -> ($ext_if)
>   nat on $ext_if from $private_network_1 to any -> ($ext_if)
>
>   pass from { lo0, $private_network_0 } to any
>   pass from { lo0, $private_network_1 } to any
>   sunny:RabbitsDen>sudo pfctl -F nat
>   sunny:RabbitsDen>sudo pfctl -f pf.nat.conf
>
>   We are done. Admittedly, if you have many clients which flicker in and
> out of existence, this gets very messy very quickly. Some scripting is
> advised.
>
> -- bridging-to-outside world. Have not tried it for the lack of need.
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
>



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