[Fwd: Re: [Fedora-xen] Using Wireless Connection In KVM]

[Robert L Cochran]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 05:39:03PM -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>   
>> How can I get my Fedora 10 guest to use a wireless connection? Do I need
>> to configure a wireless "bridge" adapter? That is, if the wired adapter
>> bridge is ifcfg-eth0 referencing "br0" perhaps I need a second named
>> ifcfg-wlan0 referencing "br1"?
>>
>> In short: does anyone have wireless working for Fedora 10, KVM guests?
>> If yes, can the configuration details be shared with me? I'm dying to
>> use wireless in my guest. Laptops were never meant for long trailing
>> wires if you ask me...
>>     
>
> Wireless + bridging == fail.
>
> When creating the guest you should use libvirt's 'default' virtual 
> network, which is NAT based and specifically designed to play nicely
> with NetworkManager
>
>   http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking
>
> So no matter what wifi network/adress your host has, the guest will still
> get outbound traffic through
>
> Daniel
>   
Thanks for the advice. I want to be able to use wireless, but still get
a specific IP address on my home network in the 192.168.1.x range. The
virtual network doesn't use that address range by default. I guess I
could kludge this...I'll have to think carefully about the networking
that I'm doing.

Bob