[vbox-dev] tuntap hacks for FreeBSD vbox hosts (bandaid till vbox-net driver...)

Mario Lobo mlobo at digiart.art.br
Thu Aug 20 04:21:49 GMT 2009


On Wednesday 19 August 2009 16:34:48 Juergen Lock wrote:
> [Resent with proper From, sorry forgot this list is subscribed-only...]
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> -----
>
> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:54:48 +0200
> From: Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de>
> To: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
> Cc: freebsd-emulation at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: tuntap hacks for FreeBSD vbox hosts (bandaid till vbox-net
> 	driver...)
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
>
> Hi!
>
>  After inquiring on the #vbox-dev channel whether the tuntap code could
> be resurrected for hosts that don't have vbox net/bridge drivers yet
> (like FreeBSD :) I now got it working - except the config gui and
> ifup/down scripts, the code for at least the latter seems to have been
> ripped out for good indeed...  So for now you have to use VBoxManage
> something like this,
> 	VBoxManage modifyvm <VM name> --nic1 bridged --bridgeadapter1 tap0
> and manually configure your tap interface and (optionally) add it to a
> bridge before the VM starts.  If you already have setup your host system to
> use tuntap networking with qemu you probably can just chown/chmod /dev/tap0
> (or whichever one you use) to 660 root:vboxusers and then run your
> /usr/local/etc/qemu-ifup script with the same tap interface as arg,
> otherwise do something like...
> 	kldload if_tap if_bridge
> 	sysctl net.link.tap.user_open=1
> 	chown root:vboxusers /dev/tap0
> 	chmod 660 /dev/tap0
> 	ifconfig bridge0 create
> 	ifconfig bridge0 addm <host physical interface>
> 	ifconfig tap0 <ip> netmask <netmask>
> 	ifconfig bridge0 addm tap0
> and then start the guest.  (You'll have to rerun the `ifconfig tap0 ...'
> each time before you start the guest again.)
>
>  Tested on the stable/8 FreeBSD branch with the vbox version currently
> in ports.  (which btw today seems to have hit the same FreeBSD vboxdrv
> bug with svm and npt here while scp'ing a big file out of a guest that
> I previously thought only plagued intel vt-x users, see this post for
> details...
> 	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2009-August/006692.ht
>ml )
>
>  Anyway, here comes the patch, enjoy! :)
>
> Index: Config.kmk
> @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@
>   endif
>  endif
>  # Use VBoxNetFlt for host interface networking.
> -if1of ($(KBUILD_TARGET), darwin linux solaris win freebsd)
> +if1of ($(KBUILD_TARGET), darwin linux solaris win)
>   VBOX_WITH_NETFLT = 1
>   VBOX_SOLARIS_NSL_RESOLVED = 1
>   if1of ($(KBUILD_TARGET), darwin solaris linux)
> Index: src/VBox/Devices/Makefile.kmk
> @@ -802,7 +802,8 @@
>  	Storage/DrvHostFloppy% \
>  	, $(Drivers_SOURCES)) \
>  	Audio/ossaudio.c
> -Drivers_SOURCES.freebsd =
> +Drivers_SOURCES.freebsd = \
> +	Network/DrvTAP.cpp
>  endif # freebsd
>
>
> Index: src/VBox/Main/include/ConsoleImpl.h
> @@ -573,7 +573,7 @@
>      PPDMLED     mapNetworkLeds[SchemaDefs::NetworkAdapterCount];
>      PPDMLED     mapSharedFolderLed;
>      PPDMLED     mapUSBLed[2];
> -#if !defined(VBOX_WITH_NETFLT) && defined(RT_OS_LINUX)
> +#if !defined(VBOX_WITH_NETFLT) && (defined(RT_OS_LINUX) ||
> defined(RT_OS_FREEBSD)) Utf8Str     maTAPDeviceName[8];
>      RTFILE      maTapFD[8];
>  #endif
> Index: src/VBox/Devices/Builtins.h
> @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
>  extern const PDMDRVREG g_DrvRawImage;
>  extern const PDMDRVREG g_DrvISCSI;
>  extern const PDMDRVREG g_DrvISCSITransportTcp;
> -#ifdef RT_OS_LINUX
> +#if defined(RT_OS_LINUX) || defined(RT_OS_FREEBSD)
>  extern const PDMDRVREG g_DrvHostInterface;
>  #endif
>  extern const PDMDRVREG g_DrvIntNet;
> Index: src/VBox/Devices/Builtins.cpp
> @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
>      if (RT_FAILURE(rc))
>          return rc;
>  #endif
> -#if defined(RT_OS_LINUX)
> +#if defined(RT_OS_LINUX) || defined(RT_OS_FREEBSD)
>      rc = pCallbacks->pfnRegister(pCallbacks, &g_DrvHostInterface);
>      if (RT_FAILURE(rc))
>          return rc;
> Index: src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxBFE/NetworkAdapterImpl.h
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
>          BOOL mCableConnected;
>          BOOL mTraceEnabled;
>          Bstr mHostInterface;
> -#ifdef RT_OS_LINUX
> +#if defined(RT_OS_LINUX) || defined(RT_OS_FREEBSD)
>          Bstr mTAPSetupApplication;
>          Bstr mTAPTerminateApplication;
>          RTFILE mTAPFD;
> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
>      //    STDMETHOD(COMGETTER(AttachmentType))(NetworkAttachmentType_T
> *attachmentType); STDMETHOD(COMGETTER(HostInterface))(BSTR *hostInterface);
>      STDMETHOD(COMSETTER(HostInterface))(INPTR BSTR hostInterface);
> -#ifdef RT_OS_LINUX
> +#if defined(RT_OS_LINUX) || defined(RT_OS_FREEBSD)
>      STDMETHOD(COMGETTER(TAPFileDescriptor))(LONG *tapFileDescriptor);
>      STDMETHOD(COMSETTER(TAPFileDescriptor))(LONG tapFileDescriptor);
>      STDMETHOD(COMGETTER(TAPSetupApplication))(BSTR *tapSetupApplication);
> Index: src/VBox/Main/ConsoleImpl.cpp
> @@ -34,6 +34,16 @@
>  #   include <stdio.h>
>  #   include <stdlib.h>
>  #   include <string.h>
> +#elif defined(RT_OS_FREEBSD)
> +#   include <errno.h>
> +#   include <sys/ioctl.h>
> +#   include <sys/poll.h>
> +#   include <sys/fcntl.h>
> +#   include <sys/types.h>
> +#   include <sys/wait.h>
> +#   include <stdio.h>
> +#   include <stdlib.h>
> +#   include <string.h>
>  #endif
>
>  #include "ConsoleImpl.h"
> @@ -6023,7 +6033,7 @@
>   */
>  HRESULT Console::attachToBridgedInterface(INetworkAdapter *networkAdapter)
>  {
> -#if !defined(RT_OS_LINUX) || defined(VBOX_WITH_NETFLT)
> +#if (!defined(RT_OS_LINUX) && !defined(RT_OS_FREEBSD)) ||
> defined(VBOX_WITH_NETFLT) /*
>       * Nothing to do here.
>       *
> @@ -6033,7 +6043,7 @@
>      NOREF(networkAdapter);
>      return S_OK;
>
> -#else /* RT_OS_LINUX && !VBOX_WITH_NETFLT */
> +#else /* (RT_OS_LINUX || RT_OS_FREEBSD) && !VBOX_WITH_NETFLT */
>
>      LogFlowThisFunc(("\n"));
>      /* sanity check */
> @@ -6055,6 +6065,7 @@
>      /*
>       * Allocate a host interface device
>       */
> +#ifdef RT_OS_LINUX
>      int rcVBox = RTFileOpen(&maTapFD[slot], "/dev/net/tun",
>                              RTFILE_O_READWRITE | RTFILE_O_OPEN |
> RTFILE_O_DENY_NONE | RTFILE_O_INHERIT); if (VBOX_SUCCESS(rcVBox))
> @@ -6133,6 +6144,48 @@
>                  break;
>          }
>      }
> +#elif RT_OS_FREEBSD
> +    /*
> +     * Set/obtain the tap interface.
> +     */
> +    /* The name of the TAP interface we are using */
> +    Bstr tapDeviceName;
> +    rc =
> networkAdapter->COMGETTER(HostInterface)(tapDeviceName.asOutParam()); +   
> if (FAILED(rc))
> +        tapDeviceName.setNull();  /* Is this necessary? */
> +    if (tapDeviceName.isEmpty())
> +    {
> +        LogRel(("No TAP device name was supplied.\n"));
> +        rc = setError(E_FAIL, tr ("No TAP device name was supplied for the
> host networking interface")); +    }
> +    char szTapdev[1024] = "/dev/";
> +    /* If we are using a static TAP device then try to open it. */
> +    Utf8Str str(tapDeviceName);
> +    if (str.length() + strlen(szTapdev) <= sizeof(szTapdev))
> +        strcat(szTapdev, str.raw());
> +    else
> +        memcpy(szTapdev + strlen(szTapdev), str.raw(), sizeof(szTapdev) -
> strlen(szTapdev) - 1); /** @todo bitch about names which are too long... */
> +    int rcVBox = RTFileOpen(&maTapFD[slot], szTapdev,
> +                            RTFILE_O_READWRITE | RTFILE_O_OPEN |
> RTFILE_O_DENY_NONE | RTFILE_O_INHERIT | RTFILE_O_NON_BLOCK); +
> +    if (VBOX_SUCCESS(rcVBox))
> +    {
> +        maTAPDeviceName[slot] = tapDeviceName;
> +        rcVBox = VINF_SUCCESS;
> +    } else {
> +        switch (rcVBox)
> +        {
> +            case VERR_ACCESS_DENIED:
> +                /* will be handled by our caller */
> +                rc = rcVBox;
> +                break;
> +            default:
> +                rc = setError(E_FAIL, tr ("Failed to open the host network
> interface %ls"), +                      tapDeviceName.raw());
> +                break;
> +        }
> +    }
> +#endif /* RT_OS_FREEBSD */
>      /* in case of failure, cleanup. */
>      if (VBOX_FAILURE(rcVBox) && SUCCEEDED(rc))
>      {
> @@ -6141,7 +6194,7 @@
>      }
>      LogFlowThisFunc(("rc=%d\n", rc));
>      return rc;
> -#endif /* RT_OS_LINUX */
> +#endif /* RT_OS_LINUX || RT_OS_FREEBSD */
>  }
>
>  /**
> @@ -6154,7 +6207,7 @@
>   */
>  HRESULT Console::detachFromBridgedInterface(INetworkAdapter
> *networkAdapter) {
> -#if !defined(RT_OS_LINUX) || defined(VBOX_WITH_NETFLT)
> +#if (!defined(RT_OS_LINUX) && !defined(RT_OS_FREEBSD)) ||
> defined(VBOX_WITH_NETFLT) /*
>       * Nothing to do here.
>       */
> @@ -6211,7 +6264,7 @@
>      }
>      LogFlowThisFunc(("returning %d\n", rc));
>      return rc;
> -#endif /* RT_OS_LINUX */
> +#endif /* RT_OS_LINUX || RT_OS_FREEBSD */
>  }
>
>
> Index: src/VBox/Main/ConsoleImpl2.cpp
> @@ -2182,7 +2182,13 @@
>
>          case NetworkAttachmentType_Bridged:
>          {
> -#if !defined(VBOX_WITH_NETFLT) && defined(RT_OS_LINUX)
> +#if !defined(VBOX_WITH_NETFLT) && (defined(RT_OS_LINUX) ||
> defined(RT_OS_FREEBSD)) +            hrc =
> pThis->attachToBridgedInterface(aNetworkAdapter); +            if
> (FAILED(hrc))
> +            {
> +                LogRel(("NetworkAttachmentType_Bridged:
> attachToBridgedInterface failed, hrc (0x%x)", hrc)); +                H();
> +            }
>              Assert ((int)pThis->maTapFD[uInstance] >= 0);
>              if ((int)pThis->maTapFD[uInstance] >= 0)
>              {
>
> PS: error handling can probably be improved...
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
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WoW !! Tested and it works beautifully !!!!

You're the man, Juergen !!

I have set up the proper patch-*.* files for the port's /files directory.
Please let me know if you want them.

That was the only thing missing for me to use VBox the way I need it.

Thanks many times over !
-- 
Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winedows FREE)




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