Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows Update on guest

[Darryl Dixon]

Hi William,

    I have successfully used Windows Update for both a Windows 98 guest and Windows 2003 guest (Linux host).  I have posted to this list previously the setup that I use, but briefly:
tun/tap enabled in host kernel (most distros this is a default)
run qemu with -n qemu-ifup
contents of qemu-ifup:
#!/bin/bash

/sbin/iptables --flush      #Clear out all old rules.  You will want to customise this step.

echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward       #Enable IP Forwarding for the host OS

/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE   #Enable MASQUERADEing on the real eth0 NIC

/sbin/ifconfig $1 192.168.0.254         #Bring up tun0 - guest OS NIC should be on the same subnet with
                                        #a different address; tun0 should be its gateway.


After that just manually configure your guest to use a static IP address and some external DNS servers and you're away.

Cheers,
D

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 10:43 +0000, William Greenland wrote:
> Well, I've tried various versions, including the 0.6.0 and 0.6.1
> snapshots, and the CVS over the last couple of months.  Admittedly, I
> haven't tried the very recent slirp patch you refer to, but then the
> problem remains the same with tun/tap networking.
>
> Anyway, I'm doubtful that this is just an "off by one" downloading
> error, particularly since I have no problems downloading files.
>
> I think that this issue is a more general networking one.  Do QEMU
> processes appear on the network "exactly like machines"?  If so, it
> could well be that the problem is not with QEMU, but with the host
> providing the network connection.
>
> I will try the slirp patch and see if it helps.  But still, if anyone
> HAS got Windows Update to work, I'd be interested to hear about it.
>
> I'd really like to have a detailed account of a working Linux host /
> MS guest setup, with complete details (for example) of what networking
> options are enabled in the host kernel, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Will.
>
> Hetz Ben Hamo writes:
>  > Hi William,
>  > 
>  > Which version of QEMU have you tried? I would suggest to try the
>  > latest CVS or a snapshot from my web site since there was a networking
>  > bug which Fabrice fixed yesterday, and that should let you use the
>  > windows update.
>  > 
>  > Thanks,
>  > Hetz
>  > 
>  > > Has anyone had any success running "Windows Update" via IE on (any)
>  > > MS guest?  I'm using a (Gentoo) Linux host, and I've tried all the
>  > > networking configurations I can think of.
>  > > 
>  > > Is this even the kind of thing that *should* be working at the moment?
>  > > 
>  > > If anyone has this working with a similar setup, I'd be VERY glad to
>  > > hear details of how they set up networking.
>  > > 
>
>
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