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Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos



On 2017-08-19 17:02 +1000 Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> wrote:
>Which TUI/GUI do you use?

I do not know what is TUI. I don't use any GUI. I write Bash scripts
that call QEMU with the required options and I use “qemu-img” from the
command line when needed.

>I've been struggling to create a Host-only network. In VirtualBox
>(and VMWare from version 1 or very early) I could basically just
>tick a check box for "Host only network", and name one or more shared
>folders.

The easiest way to do this in QEMU is to use the “-net
user,restrict=on,hostfwd=...” option. The hostfwd part is optional, but you
will require if you want host–guest network connectivity.

This way, networking is handled in user space. A more efficient approach
is to use kernel-managed networking. It is my understanding that for this,
one may use the TUN and TAP virtual Linux devices, but I have never done
it.

>I realise I probably have to mount the SAMBA horse again. And for
>libre software, I'm willing to do all this.

Why do you want to use SAMBA? Install a SSH server in the guest and access
it from the host using scp, sftp or rsync. Rsync is the most efficient.

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