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By scuzzman at 2006-02-21 15:32
Allow me to start by saying this is a very simple process if you have an iptables script configured, so fear not. Also, although this may be Slackware-specific in parts, it's because of that reason that this information can be (relatively) easily ported to other distributions.

My host (real) setup:
Slackware Linux with kernel 2.6.9

Client:
Windows 2000 Pro

Qemu:
Version 0.8.0

If you've not gotten it installed, you'll need qemu installed on your distribution of choice.

You'll need to create an image on your hard-drive for the virtual machine to use as a hard-drive. To do this, I used qemu-img. It was actually quite simple:
Code:
qemu-img create win2k.img 10G
Breaking this down:
qemu-img creates the images you'll be using
win2k.img is the name of the file that the virtual machine will be using as a hard-drive
10G is the size of the file - I gave it 10 gigs. The abbreviation M is also accepted. If an abbreviation is not used, it defaults to K
You'll want to do this in its own folder, and also if you're installing from a CD image on your hard-drive (I did) it's useful to put it in there, too.

Now install the operating system/format the disk. To do this, I launched qemu like this:
Code:
qemu -cdrom Win2kPro.iso -boot d -hda win2k.img
Broken down:
Win2kPro.iso is the image of my Windows 2000 Pro installation CD
-boot d tells it to boot from CD-ROM
-hda winb2k.img tells it that that file is the primary hard-drive

Now that Windows is installed, you need to get internet working. It autoconfigures its NIC with a virtual dhcp server with the IP of 10.0.2.5. You need to allow packet flow of that DHCP server, so I put these rules in my iptables config:
Code:
iptables -A FORWARD -d $IP_FROM_CLIENT_OS -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -s $IP_FROM_CLIENT_OS -j ACCEPT
$IP_FROM_CLIENT_OS was set to the virtual dhcp server's ip: 10.0.2.5

You'll need to make sure you have the tun/tap kernel module installed. It was, in my kernel, installed as a module by default. So all I had to do was:
Code:
modprobe tun
You now have a /dev/net/tun device, and should have internet.

After that, I reloaded the image like this:
Code:
/usr/local/bin/qemu -m 128 -smp 1 -boot c -hda '/home/scuzzy/Win2kPro/win2k.img'
And the OS and internet connection were working.

Hope this helps someone :D


  



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