[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#507169: Bug#507169: Bug#507169: virtualbox-ose: vb-ose don't

[Anton M Serov]

On Sunday 30 November 2008 02:17:52 Joseph Rawson wrote:
> On Saturday 29 November 2008 12:00:20 Anton M Serov wrote:
> > On Saturday 29 November 2008 22:22:53 Michael Meskes wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:41:47AM +0600, Anton M. Serov wrote:
> > > > virtualbox ose doesn't make a call of tap-network-interface
> > > > add/remove scripts. i've defined:
> > > > /usr/bin/vm-iface add 1
> > > > /usr/bin/vm-iface remove 1
> > >
> > > Ehem, you defined these scripts where?
> > > And why should virtualbox-ose use them?
> > >
> > > Michael
> >
> > Please look at the screenshot attached.
>
> After looking at it, I think the problem is that you have the "Interface
> Name" entry filled.  You can't mix this entry and define your own interface
> seperately with the setup/terminate scripts.  I think that virtualbox will
> look for that interface and fail if it's not already present.  If you were
> to leave that entry blank, the scripts should be able to do the work for
> you.

I've tried once again using setup/terminate scripts with empty "Interface
Name" entry and modified setup-script. I've added 'echo tap$2' to the end of 
iface-setup case, VM started sucessfully.
Thanks.

>
> On a side note, I'd recommend that you name the tap devices "vbox#" or
> similar to distinguish them from other possible tap interfaces.  On my
> machine I name them as "vbox_$machine"  where machine is the name of the
> VM.
>
> > $ dpkg -S `which virtualbox` ; file `which vm-iface` ; cat `which
> > vm-iface` virtualbox-ose: /usr/bin/virtualbox
> > /usr/bin/vm-iface: Bourne-Again shell script text executable
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > TUNCTL=/usr/sbin/tunctl
> > BRCTL=/usr/sbin/brctl
> > SUDO=/usr/bin/sudo
> > IP=/bin/ip
> > BRIF=br0
> >
> > usage() {
> >         echo -e "\n\tUsage:\t$0 <add|start|remove|stop>
> > <tun-iface_number>\n" 1>&2
> > }
> >
> > case "$1" in
> >         add|start)
> >                 if [ ! -z "$2" ] ; then
> >                         MKTAPCMD="$SUDO $TUNCTL -t tap$2 -u $USER"
> >                         $MKTAPCMD
> >                         echo $MKTAPCMD > ~/vm
> >                         $IP link set up dev tap$2
> >                         $SUDO $BRCTL addif $BRIF tap$2
> >                 else
> >                         usage
> >                         exit 1
> >                 fi
> >         ;;
> >         remove|stop)
> >                 if [ ! -z "$2" ] ; then
> >                         $SUDO $BRCTL delif $BRIF tap$2
> >                         $IP link set down dev tap$2
> >                         $SUDO $TUNCTL -d tap$2
> >                 else
> >                         usage
> >                         exit 1
> >                 fi
> >         ;;
> >         *)
> >                 usage
> >                 exit 1
> >         ;;
> > esac
> >
> > exit 0



-- 
Anton M. Serov