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From: Sean Hinchee <henesy.dev@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] 9Front in Virtualbox with Internet and Host Drawterm Access
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:48:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e97f292-9e8d-f31b-ad1a-48daf4d26f85@gmail.com> (raw)

OS: Windows 10
Virtualbox: 5.1.22 r115126
9Front: d44f7b86e2ba+ tip

VirtualBox Guest Config:

General -> Basic
Type: Other
Version: Other/Unknown (64-bit)

System -> Motherboard
Chipset: PIIX3
Pointing Device: PS/2 Mouse
Extended Features: [x] Enable I/O APIC

System -> Processor
Extended Features: [x] PAE/NX

System -> Acceleration
[x] Enable VT-x/AMD-V
[x] Enable Nested Paging

Display -> Screen
Acceleration: [x] Enable 3D Acceleration

Storage -> Attributes
Name: IDE
Type: PIIX4
[x] Use Host I/O Cache

Audio ->
[x] Enable Audio
Host Audio Driver: CoreAudio or PulseAudio or Windows DirectSound
Audio Controller: Soundblaster 16

Network -> Adapter 1
Attached to: Host-only Adapter
Name: VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter
-> Advanced
Adapter Type: Intel PRO/1000 MT Server

Network -> Adapter 2
Attached to: NAT
-> Advanced
Adapter Type: Intel PRO/1000 MT Server

Note: Enabling USB 2.0 Control in 'Ports -> USB' should work

---

Making it work in 9Front post-install:

File -> Preferences -> Host-only Networks -> VirtualBox Host-only
Adapter -> DHCP Server

Take note of the Server Mask and the IP range, you'll use these to set
up a /lib/ndb/local something along the lines of:

ipnet=9front ip=192.168.56.0 ipmask=255.255.255.0
     auth=cirno
     cpu=cirno
     smtp=cirno

sys=cirno ether=080047472abc ip=192.168.56.102

Set an arbitrary address within range for Adapter 1, this will be ether1
and Adapter 2 should be ether0 (for some reason I had to flip them).

Adapter 1's address is the remote access address, I just leave the
Adapter 2 to be auto-configured by 9Front via DHCP and provide internet
access that way.

To ensure ether1 comes up:
Create /cfg/$sysname/cpustart and add:

bind -a '#l1' /net.alt
bind -b '#I1' /net.alt
ip/ipconfig ether /net.alt/ether1


Hopefully this helps someone.

Cheers,
Sean





             reply	other threads:[~2017-07-11  4:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-11  4:48 Sean Hinchee [this message]
2017-07-11 11:33 ` hiro
2017-07-11 14:43   ` Benjamin Purcell
2017-07-11 14:31 ` Peter Hull
2017-07-12  2:52   ` Sean Hinchee

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