Hi all, I am trying to set up an `isolated virtual network' with two or more MS-DOS guests, all on one single Linux box. The aim is for them to share a disk (or just one directory on one disk). As I could not get it to work with IPX, am now trying TCP/IP. However, I suspect the MS tools are still attempting to use IPX as well. Is there some simple solution that I am missing? Does libvirt support IPX at all? Any other easy way to do DOS file sharing? (I believe I can use any version of DOS, and any sort of tool as long as I get a `remote' directory available as some drive letter.) /Tomas
On Wed, 02 Nov 2022 08:16:01 +0100, Tomas By wrote:> As I could not get it to work with IPX, am now trying TCP/IP. However, > I suspect the MS tools are still attempting to use IPX as well.In fact, it seems that DHCP does not even work. In virt-manager/Connection details, it says "DHCP range..." for that network, and virsh net-list says it is active. DOS says, after a while, "No DHCP server found". Anything else I can try? /Tomas
On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 08:16:01 +0100, Tomas By wrote:> Hi all, > > I am trying to set up an `isolated virtual network' with two or more > MS-DOS guests, all on one single Linux box. > > The aim is for them to share a disk (or just one directory on one > disk). > > As I could not get it to work with IPX, am now trying TCP/IP. However, > I suspect the MS tools are still attempting to use IPX as well. > > Is there some simple solution that I am missing? > > Does libvirt support IPX at all?Libvirt's network definition creates a bridge (switch), so it shouldn't really matter which protocol you run across it. Obviously libvirt does not configure IPX on the host facing side of the bridge because we don't support it, but if VMs talk IPX they should be able to.