Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-04-06 Thread peter
From: Reco Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 08:26:51 +0300 > No, it does not work that way. Got the network connection and added documention here. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/ETH_Oberon/QEMUinstall#Network_Connection_on_a_Virtual_Machine Further tips always welcome. Thanks,

Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 02:19:28PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > There's no mention of shutting off the built-in DHCP server. That's because there's no need to. Unless guess OS requests a DHCP less, a DHCP server will remain dormant. > Maybe a specific ip address shuts it off.

Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-11 Thread peter
P.s. I added this stanza to host:/e/n/i . # An interface for subnet to qemu guest. auto qemunic allow-hotplug qemunic iface qemunic inet static address 10.0.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 Not guest:/e/n/i . Thanks,... P. -- cell: +1 236 464 1479

Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-11 Thread peter
From: Reco Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:01:01 +0300 > DHCP is an option for a network configuration, not a requirement. >From the qemu manual. peter@joule:/home/peter/MY$ man qemu-system-i386 | grep DHCP Specifies the client hostname reported by the built-in DHCP

Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 07:25:30AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > All the QEMU documentation I've found focusses on DHCP. Imagine the > guest system tries to set a static address and QEMU offers DHCP. Seems > unlikely to succeed. DHCP is an option for a network configuration,

Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-11 Thread peter
Reco, Thanks for the reply. > In this case QEMU uses built-in DHCP server to provide 10.0.2/24 network > to the guest OS. If you need another network it should be changed in > QEMU's commandline. Thanks. I'm trying to set a _static_ address for the guest.

Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-10 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 02:56:30PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > qemu-system-i386 -nic user,ipv6=off,model=ne2k_pci ... In this case QEMU uses built-in DHCP server to provide 10.0.2/24 network to the guest OS. If you need another network it should be changed in QEMU's

Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-10 Thread deloptes
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Will be happy with telnet or ssh or ftp from the guest to the host. (I > know telnet and ftp aren't secure but all is within one machine which > runs shorewall.)  No other machine is involved, for now at least. > > Thanks again,

Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-10 Thread peter
Nate, Thanks for the reply. From: Nate Bargmann Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:43:58 -0600 > I rely on the Qemu system to setup the IP address from the 10.x.x.x > block but that seems only to be accessible from inside the VM: So, for example, the host might set 10.3.3.1 on its interface to

Re: Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 10 Mar 17:36 -0600, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi again, > > https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking > and > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Networking > refer to qemu options -net, -netdev and -device whereas the manual for > qemu 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8 describes -nic as

Network connection of a qemu guest.

2021-03-10 Thread peter
Hi again, https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking and http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Networking refer to qemu options -net, -netdev and -device whereas the manual for qemu 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8 describes -nic as current. For an virtual NE 2000 NIC this is my trial configuration.