I have installed NetBSD 4.0.1 x68k on XM6i (http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/x68k/NetBSD-x68k-on-XM6i.html) as a virtual machine emulating a 68030 platform. I have gotten everything to work except networking.
According to the documentation, you need to install a TAP-Win32 network adapter from OpenVPN installer, which I have. I have set the ipv4 settings of this adapter to IP address: 192.168.2.1 and Netmask: 255.255.255.0
In NetBSD, I have created a /etc/ifconfig.ne0 file to configure the ne0 network interface, which I assume represents the TAP-Win32 adapter. This file sets IP address to 192.168.2.17 and Netmask to 255.255.255.0
When i use "ping 192.168.2.1" on NetBSD I am unable to ping the host, the error message being: "host is down"
Does anyone know whats going wrong? If anyone could give me any advice I would be most grateful.
Update: Above problem has been solved .... but not quite.
If I have tinkered around with settings on host, now I can ping guest only if I run tcpdump -i ne0 on guest. Then after that I can also ping the host from the guest. I have tried restarting and trying without tcpdump but the changes didnt seem to stick, so i have to run tcpdump in order to setup the host only connection.
Is there any way I can do this without tcpdump and make the fix stick?
Edit: Here is the link to the new question with a more detailed explanation of the problem: Host Only connection NetBSD to Windows
It turns out to run a complete networking emulation on a 68030 machine on the latest version of XM6i, you need to run tcpdump on boot. There is no way around it.