<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Dean:<br><br>Please send the results of the commands `ifconfig -a` and `brctl show`.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Eric Pretorious</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Truckee, CA<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div
style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Dean Hunter <deanhunter@comcast.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> virt-tools-list@redhat.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:29 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [virt-tools-list] State of Bridge Networking?<br> </font> </div> <br>
I have learned a lot of combinations that do not work, but I must be<br>missing the one little piece to make a combination work. I would like to<br>configure my virtual machine guests so that they network like peers of<br>the virtual machine host and the other host on the physical network. I<br>would like to build two VM guests with static IP addresses; one for<br>FreeIPA, which includes DNS, and one for Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP. I would<br>also like to build various VM guests with dynamic IP addresses for<br>client OSes. In addition, there are several peers of the VM host with<br>dynamic IP addresses that I would like to also use as clients of the<br>FreeIPA and LAMP VMs.<br><br>I have seen that Network Manager on the VM host does not work well with<br>bridges, but changes are on the way: Bug Report 199246. I have seen all<br>the original configuration instructions using the network service<br>instead of Network Manager, but then I have also been advised
that it<br>should no longer be necessary to use the network service. I have seen<br>articles at <a target="_blank" href="http://linux-kvm.com/">linux-kvm.com</a> about using macvtap but I have also seen bug<br>reports that virt-install and virt-manager implementations do not offer<br>the same capabilities for managing this option; and that their code is<br>being merged to prevent this problem, but it is not ready yet.<br><br>I started with the virt-manager because it seemed a simple place to<br>start learning. Then I looked at virt-install so that I could script the<br>VM builds to simplify testing and to document configuration choices. Now<br>I am down to virsh and XML files comparing the XML before and after<br>changes. I do not mind using virsh in scripts if that is the best way to<br>build VMs quickly and repeatedly.<br><br>Right now I have one Fedora 18 VM guest running with macvtap and a<br>static IP address on a Fedora 18 VM host. The VM guest
can ping to the<br>Internet, but not the VM host or peers of the VM host.<br><br>I welcome your suggestions.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>virt-tools-list mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:virt-tools-list@redhat.com" href="mailto:virt-tools-list@redhat.com">virt-tools-list@redhat.com</a><br><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>