[9fans] 9Front in Virtualbox with Internet and Host Drawterm Access

[9fans] 9Front in Virtualbox with Internet and Host Drawterm Access

[Sean Hinchee]

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

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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

Re: [9fans] 9Front in Virtualbox with Internet and Host Drawterm Access

[hiro]

everybody please stop promoting vbox. it will confuse everybody.

Re: [9fans] 9Front in Virtualbox with Internet and Host Drawterm Access

[Benjamin Purcell]

I don't currently have the option to use anything besides vbox at
work. So this information is helpful to me.

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 7:33 AM, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> everybody please stop promoting vbox. it will confuse everybody.
>

Re: [9fans] 9Front in Virtualbox with Internet and Host Drawterm Access

[Peter Hull]

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On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 at 05:48 Sean Hinchee <henesy.dev@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> My current 9front VM set-up works fine with the virtio-net ethernet
adapter, attached to NAT Network. Does this also work for you? I have never
used it with drawterm on the host, though.
Peter

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Re: [9fans] 9Front in Virtualbox with Internet and Host Drawterm Access

[Sean Hinchee]

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Using virtio-net should work just fine, might need to shuffle the order
of the cards/address config, but that should be all.


On 07/11/2017 9:31 AM, Peter Hull wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 at 05:48 Sean Hinchee <henesy.dev@gmail.com
> <mailto:henesy.dev@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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
>
> My current 9front VM set-up works fine with the virtio-net ethernet
> adapter, attached to NAT Network. Does this also work for you? I have
> never used it with drawterm on the host, though.
> Peter
>


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