On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:04:51 +0200, you wrote: >On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:23 PM, WarGrey[????????] <juzhenli...@gmail.com> >wrote: >> I installed OpenIndiana b151 in virtualbox on MacOSX, there is a zone with >> dedicated ip over e1000g1 which connecting to a host-only virtual NIC. >> Everything was okay before updating to b151a4. I could access it >> everywhere, host OS, global zone, or any other VMs whose NICs are in the >> same virtual network. >> >> However, when updating to b151a4, it is not ping-able outside the box, >> unless following command is running in the global zone: >> tcpdump -i e1000g1. > >VNICs and VirtualBox doesn't go well together. The reason for this is >that VirtualBox doesn't know anything about the MAC address of the >VNIC, and thus doesn't forward traffic to that MAC address into the >virtual machine. >When you run tcpdump it will set the network interface in promiscuous >mode, which will drop the filtering of traffic intended to other >hosts, and the traffic to the zone will get through. > >The best way I have found to solve this, is to create an extra network >interface in the VirtualBox configuration, and then assign that >interface to the zone instead of a VNIC. Then it will work as >expected.
Good hint. Additionally: NICs are cheap in VirtualBox. Although the GUI only allows management of up to four, the CLI VBoxManage can manage up to eight NICs. http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#idp13727168 -- Regards, Kees Nuyt _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
