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From: "Jim C. Brown" <jbrown106@phreaker.net>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] tun interface
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:44:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040826234432.GA12212@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408271137.23491.andrej@paradise.net.nz>

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:37:23AM +1200, Andrej wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:20, Joe Menola wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> > You need kernel support for tun (modprobe tun).
> 
> > You'll find it under "Networking support" using xconfig. Once
> > the module is loaded /dev/net/tun will be created.
> It is present, but qemu doesn't create anything under
> /dev/net/tun even with tun pre-loaded. Do I  need to 
> make the executable SUID or something?
> 
> 
> > -jm
> Andrej
> 
> 

Keep in mind that the tun device is created in the ethernet namespace, not in
the /dev tree. So, to see it, you'll need to use ifconfig.

/dev/net/tun is accessable by root only, by default. You either need root
perms or you have to change the permissions on /dev/net/tun to let
qemu use it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-26 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-26 20:30 [Qemu-devel] tun interface Andrej
2004-08-26 21:20 ` Joe Menola
2004-08-26 23:37   ` Andrej
2004-08-26 23:44     ` Jim C. Brown [this message]
2004-08-26 23:52       ` Andrej
2004-08-27  0:02     ` Joe Menola
2004-08-27  6:43       ` Renzo Davoli
2004-08-27 23:15       ` Andrej
2004-08-28  5:37         ` Joe Menola

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