[vbox-dev] vboxbow not working?

[Ramshankar]

On 12/15/11 07:32 AM, Willi Burmeister wrote:
> Hi vbox developers,
>
> I tried to ask the following in vbox-users-community at lists.sourceforge.net
> without luck. Maybe someone here has some answers.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> I'm playing with Crossbow and VirtualBox on my fully patched Solaris 11.
>
> My system has two network interfaces. The main interface (igb0) is for the host.
> The second interface (igb1) is on a trunk line and my playground for crossbow.
>
> For VirtualBox I created a new VNIC with:
>
> # dladm create-vnic -l igb1 -v 110 sun110001
>
>    110001 = VLAN-ID * 1000 + PPA

iirc, with S11, I don't think you need to specify a PPA-hack name 
anymore for VLANs. Vanity names should work, i.e. dladm create-vnic -l 
igb1 -v 110 myinterface0 should work just the same.

> To be able to snoop on the net I had to plumb the interface:
>
> # ipadm create-ip sun110001
>
> # ifconfig sun110001
> sun110001: flags=201000842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS>  mtu 1500 index 12
>          inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0
>          ether 2:8:20:14:30:39
>
> Now I created a new VM with sun110001 as bridged interface and the same MAC address.

You shouldn't have to manually assign the same MAC address anymore with 
vboxbow. Simply passing the VNIC should be sufficient.

> % VBoxManage showvminfo VM | egrep -i 'nic 1'
> NIC 1:           MAC: 020820143039, Attachment: Bridged Interface 'sun110001 - Ethernet', Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM,
> +Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0, Promisc Policy: deny
>
>
> Unfortunately the VM was not able to establish a network connection as none of the
> packets got a VLAN tag.
>
> Removing VirtualBox and reinstalling while doing a 'touch /etc/vboxinst_vboxflt' first
> installed the old vboxflt driver.
>
> Now all network packets are tagged and everything seems to work as expected.
>
>
> What's the main difference between vboxbow and vboxflt? And why does my
> setup not work with vboxbow?

The main difference is vboxbow uses Solaris 11's crossbow architecture 
and creates VNICs on the fly if it has to.

Have you tried using a VirtualBox VLAN VNIC template? See User Manual 
chapter 9.16 VirtualBox VNIC templates for VLANs on Solaris 11. The name 
is important, it *has* to beging with "vboxvnic_template".

Regards,
Ram.

> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Willi
>
> % pkg info entire | egrep -i summ
>         Summary: entire incorporation including Support Repository Update (Oracle Solaris 11 11/11 SRU 02). ...
>
> % pkgparam SUNWvbox VERSION
> 4.1.6,REV=2011.11.04.13.40.74713
>
> # modinfo | egrep -i vbox
> 201 fffffffff868b548    d48 189   1  vboxnet (VirtualBox NetAdp 4.1.6r74713)
> 203 fffffffff89c0000  2e3b0 184   1  vboxdrv (VirtualBox HostDrv 4.1.6r74713)
> 264 fffffffff8d80000   4a18 193   1  vboxusbmon (VirtualBox USBMon 4.1.6r74713)
> 265 fffffffff8b68000   75d8 195   1  vboxusb (VirtualBox USB 4.1.6r74713)
> 305 fffffffff8d78000   7960 196   1  vboxflt (VirtualBox NetDrv 4.1.6r74713)
> 305 fffffffff8d78000   7960   -   1  vboxflt (VirtualBox NetMod 4.1.6r74713)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks
>
> Willi
>
>
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