[Fedora-xen] KVM Networking Question

[Todd Deshane]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Robert L Cochran
<cochranb at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> To my pleasure, I was able to get two different virtual machines running
> pretty quickly. I installed Fedora 10 x86_64 on my new laptop with the
> Virtualization package group and as little else as possible. Then I
> updated the system (so now I'm using kvm-74-6-fc10.x86_64), started the
> graphical Virtual Machine Manager, and built a guest for Windows XP
> Professional and a second guest for Fedora 10 x86_64.
>
> I want the Fedora 10 guest to fetch an IP address of 192.168.1.115 from
> the dhcp server running on my network. Virtual Machine Manager seems to
> be creating it's very own dhcp server and assigning network addresses of
> 192.168.122.2 and higher. So I can't ping the guest I just created from
> a host on the 192.168.1.0 network.
>
> The networking behavior VMWare gives me results in my virtual machines
> getting their addresses from the dhcp server on the 192.168.1.0 network,
> so the host IP I'm expecting for a machine is the one that is assigned
> and used.
>
> How do I change the networking in Virtual Machine Manager to simply pass
> all the dhcp calls to my network? Or is there a good reason to let the
> Manager do its own 192.168.122.x network?
>

I don't know specifically about Virtual Machine Manager and don't have it
handy, but for the basic concepts of KVM networking and also the libvirt
style and nomenclature see the following links:

http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking
http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Networking

The Virtual Machine Manager page may have some information that
could help you:

http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/screenshots/networking.html

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Todd

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Todd Deshane
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