From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CXMHC-0007ak-7j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:15:22 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CXMHA-0007a3-UN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:15:21 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CXMHA-0007Zn-Q6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:15:20 -0500 Received: from [204.127.202.55] (helo=sccrmhc11.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CXM7e-0001dk-0b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:05:30 -0500 Message-ID: <001b01c4d308$9ac3d160$0301a8c0@mohammadkhan> From: "M. Khalid Khan" References: <000301c4d2ad$34a6d360$0301a8c0@mohammadkhan> <20041125132218.GA17546@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Has anyone got tun/tap network running on WinXp host / Linux guest ? Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:05:37 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: "M. Khalid Khan" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: jbrown106@swift-mail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Thank you so much Jim, can you give me some pointers on how to setup vpn through user-net in this situation. I looked at -redir option but it looks too tedious to set each and every port needed. If only there could be block redir option i.e. all ports from N to N+M on host be redirected to guest ports 0 to M. Thanks again for your help Khalid ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim C. Brown" To: "M. Khalid Khan" ; Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 7:22 AM Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Has anyone got tun/tap network running on WinXp host / Linux guest ? > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:11:21PM -0600, M. Khalid Khan wrote: >> I must confess my ignorance but I'm having no luck in setting up a >> tun/tap >> network between WinXP host and Suse Linux guest. > > You mean Linux guest and WinXP host I assume? As there is no support for > tuntap > in a Windows host, and never will. (Windows doesn't directly provide the > mechisms > need to do this. I am aware of two alternatives: the easy way is to set up > VPN > through user-net, the hard way is to patch qemu to use winpcap.) > >> BTW user-net is working >> great but I need the emulated system to be a full fledged server. From >> what >> I can gather by reading the docs and messages, QEMU needs a script to >> setup >> tun/tap network ( by default /etc/qemu-ifup ). Unless I totally missed >> it, >> this script must be on the host OS. Now my host OS being WinXP, I don't >> have any "/etc" or any linux like scripts. Is there an alternate >> script/batch file for Windows? If not, what is the alternative? > > Look up the -redir option. > >> Care to help. >> Khalid >> >> PS: I really appreciate what is being done, keep up the good work. >> > > -- > Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. > Infinite precision begets infinite perfection. >