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Jan Danielsson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>    I've decided that I want to understand the boot process, and how to
> build a "livecd". But I don't feel like spending a bunch of CD's in the
> intial trial-and-error phase, so I thought I'd begin experimenting in an
> QEMU virtual machine.
> 
>    Getting QEMU to boot up NetBSD/i386 was dead easy, as was installing
> it. But now I need to be able to:
> 
>    1) Fetch pkgsrc into the VM so that I can install some tools I need
>    2) Transfer the generated livecd ISO out to my "real" system so that
> I can try booting from it in another QEMU session.
> 
>    Both these points "require" networking. I tried to read the docs, but
> frankly: I don't understand anything. :-)  My knowledge of networking is
> extremely limited. Is there any easy way to allow me to transfer files
> between my real system and a virtual machine? I tried the tftp thing,
> but couldn't get it working. And I read somewhere that it was very limited.
what you need is desribed here [1]. You will use ifconfig(8) and route(8).
set up your virtual/real enviroment  like this

virtual#
ifconfig {virtual int} 192.168.1.2/24 up
route add default 192.168.1.1


real# ifconfig {real int} 192.168.1.1/24

then run sshd on your real machine and use scp command from virtual qenu machine.
#virtual scp {your login on real machine}@192.168.1.1:/{path to pkgsrc}
{destination dir}
> 
>    I guess I don't really need to have access to the Internet from the
> virtual machine, as I can install binary packages, but I still need to
> transfer files to/from the VM from my "real" system.
> 
>    In worst case, I guess I can simply create a "second harddrive" image
> which I dd tar archives to/from. :-)
> 

[1]http://netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-net-intro.html#chap-net-intro-tcpip-subnet

Regards
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