AQEMU review and Tun/Tap setup

Written By James Ravenscroft

Here’s a good general review of AQEMU with some screen shots:

http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/AQEMU-Review-122940.shtml

If you are already familiar with setting up virtualization in Virtual Box and VMWare server, AQEMU will be a snap to set up and use.

One thing the review does not cover in detail is setting up bridging and tun/tap. For that, please see my previous post. Once bridging and tun/tap interfaces are set up (sudo /sbin/ifconfig should show br0 and all the tap interfaces you specified in /etc/network/interfaces ), you will want to configure your virtual machines to use your tun/tap interfaces under the Network tab of each virtual machine.

1) You will probably want to set your network card to RTL8139 since this seems to be very well-supported in most guest OS

2) select Connection Mode of Open a TUN/TAP interface

3) Click the green “plus” to the right of the MAC address field to generate a unique MAC for the given VM’s virtual NIC

4) Uncheck the box beside Tun/Tap Script

5) Type the name of the tap interface to be used by the VM

6) Click Apply at the bottom of the Network tab window