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Package: qemu
Version: 0.9.1-1
Severity: normal
It seems to be impossible to have a tun/tap device already configured (e.g. in
/etc/network/interfaces and the if-pre-up.d script from uml-utilities) but not
yet open (i.e. no file descriptor), and have that device used by qemu.
I tried -nic tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap0,script=/bin/true, but that doesn't work.
Instead I am now using qemu-start which opens /dev/net/tun, binds to tap0 (or
whichever I choose) and then passes the file descriptor (using -nic
tap,vlan=0,fd=<fd-from-opening-tun>) to qemu.
Is there any other way of having tap0 preconfigured and using it in qemu?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages qemu depends on:
ii bochsbios 2.3.5-1 BIOS for the Bochs emulator
ii libasound2 1.0.15-3 ALSA library
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgnutls13 2.0.4-3 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080203-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-2 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii openbios-sparc 1.0~alpha2+20080106-2 SPARC Open Firmware
ii openhackware 0.4.1-3 OpenFirmware emulator for PowerPC
ii proll 18-3 JavaStation PROM 2.x compatible re
ii vgabios 0.6a-3 VGA BIOS software for the Bochs an
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages qemu recommends:
ii debootstrap 1.0.8 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii sharutils 1:4.6.3-1 shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode
ii vde2 2.2.0-pre2-1 Virtual Distributed Ethernet
-- no debconf information
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:06:07AM -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> Package: qemu
> Version: 0.9.1-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> It seems to be impossible to have a tun/tap device already configured (e.g.
> in /etc/network/interfaces and the if-pre-up.d script from uml-utilities) but
> not yet open (i.e. no file descriptor), and have that device used by qemu.
>
You don't need to pass the device via the file descriptor. Just make
sure the tap0 interface exists (if you have configured it in
/etc/network/interfaces, just run ifup tap0) and run:
qemu -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap0 ...
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