Guest host networking
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captainmatt29
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Guest host networking
Is there a way to enable guest / host networking as I want to share some files over APF between Catalina and Mac OS 9.2 but i cant find any walkthrough on how to do this.
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adespoton
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Re: Guest host networking
You've got an easy solution and a couple of harder solutions:
Easy: pause QEMU and open the disk image in Catalina to move files back and forth.
Medium: use the folder sharing feature -- it'll share a folder as if it were a FAT drive. Resources will be lost.
Hard: Install Tun/Tap device in Catalina. This involves disabling SIP, running QEMU as root, and installing the soon-to-be-totally-deprecated signed and notarized Tap kext via installing TunnelBlick. See https://tunnelblick.net/cTunTapConnections.html for why that'll only last you until this coming October.
Out of curiosity, has anyone attempted to get Tun networking to work with BII/SS/QEMU? Because unlike Tap, it doesn't require the soon-to-be-broken Tap kext.
See my other discussion in https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10076 -- there are further limitations with using Tap devices with emulators in Catalina and later.
[edit] to more directly answer your post, the instructions are available at https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking
Easy: pause QEMU and open the disk image in Catalina to move files back and forth.
Medium: use the folder sharing feature -- it'll share a folder as if it were a FAT drive. Resources will be lost.
Hard: Install Tun/Tap device in Catalina. This involves disabling SIP, running QEMU as root, and installing the soon-to-be-totally-deprecated signed and notarized Tap kext via installing TunnelBlick. See https://tunnelblick.net/cTunTapConnections.html for why that'll only last you until this coming October.
Out of curiosity, has anyone attempted to get Tun networking to work with BII/SS/QEMU? Because unlike Tap, it doesn't require the soon-to-be-broken Tap kext.
See my other discussion in https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10076 -- there are further limitations with using Tap devices with emulators in Catalina and later.
[edit] to more directly answer your post, the instructions are available at https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking
Note that from inside the guest, connecting to a port on the "gateway" IP address will connect to that port on the host; so for instance "ssh 10.0.2.2" will ssh from the guest to the host.
You can configure User Networking using the -netdev user command line option.
Adding the following to the qemu command line will change the network configuration to use 192.168.76.0/24 instead of the default (10.0.2.0/24) and will start guest DHCP allocation from 9 (instead of 15):
-netdev user,id=mynet0,net=192.168.76.0/24,dhcpstart=192.168.76.9
You can isolate the guest from the host (and broader network) using the restrict option. For example -netdev user,id=mynet0,restrict=y or -netdev type=user,id=mynet0,restrict=yes will restrict networking to just the guest and any virtual devices. This can be used to prevent software running inside the guest from phoning home while still providing a network inside the guest. You can selectively override this using hostfwd and guestfwd options.