Solved vm bhyve - network absent on windows 10 guest

[crinx]

Hello,

After a few months struggle for usb passthrough to the guest, now a new frontier. Internet on the windows guest.
On windows cmd

ipconfig /all

shows only the

Windows Ip Configuration

with 4 lines, and nothing else, no ethernet adaptor, no wireless adaptor, nothing.
I tried to disable firewall on windows, I enabled some ICMP things to ping to the host, but with no success.
I have two questions:
1. Are there some setup specifications for windows os as guest ?
2. How to allocate a specific IP adress to the guest, if necessary?
( I created vm and vm switch with

vm switch create public

vm switch add public ue0

vm switch address public 192.168.x.x/24

create -t uefi -s 40G win10

)
Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[SirDice]

Are there some setup specifications for windows os as guest ?

Windows doesn't have support for the virtio network adapter, you have to install it.

Running Windows

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How to allocate a specific IP adress to the guest, if necessary?

You don't. You configure this on the VM itself.

And don't assign an IP address to the bridge.

 

[crinx]

In my uefi.conf file I have:

 disk1_type="ahci-cd"
 disk1_dev="custom"
 disk1_name="/zroot/bhyve/virtio-win-0.1.229.iso"

I thought that this is enough, but probably ,as I saw in the link you provided, I need also to execute

# vm install win10 /zroot/bhyve/virtio-win-01.229.iso

Unfortunately, right now I am in other location, and I cannot test all of these, but tomorrow I'll do and I'll come back.

Thank you, SirDice. It is verry much appreciated.

 

[SirDice]

Simpler option, configure the VM with the e1000 network card instead of virtio-net. Windows should support it, then you can use Windows itself to download and install the appropriate driver.

 

[crinx]

Finally it works with the solution SirDice suggested.
I destroyed the switch, vm win10, then I recreated them but with a modified uefi.conf

network0_type="e1000"
#network0_type="virtio-net"

I installed windows 10 from the iso file, and I had internet access immediately after install.
From the windows guest I downloaded virtio network drivers from fedorapeople.org , then I run the exe file and the drivers were quickly installed.
Then I reversed the modification in the uefi.conf (as indicated in github.com/chuchers/vm-bhyve/wiki/Running-Windows)

#network0_type="e1000"
network0_type="virtio-net"

I restarted the computer and when I start the guest I had internet, and everything was just fine.
I consider this problem SOLVED, but honestly I don't know how to mark it so.