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

[Joseph Rawson]

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.

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



-- 
Thanks:
Joseph Rawson
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