[Fedora-xen] Xen guests on the local network

Dustin Black dblack at vantage.com
Wed Jun 25 14:42:54 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 09:57 -0400, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 12:12 -0400, Dustin Black wrote:
> > I find that Fedora 8 is using a DHCP service via libvirtd/qemu to assign
> > addresses to any guests that I create.  I also see that libvirtd enables
> > ip forwarding and creates iptables entries to allow the Xen server to
> > act as a router for the guests.
> >
> > I need to change this setup such that the guests appear on the same
> > network as the Xen server, and are able to receive DHCP assignments from
> > another server on the network.
> >
> > It may be that I just haven't chosen the right terms to search for, but
> > I can't seem to find any documentation or reference to disabling or
> > bypassing the qemu dhcp assignment and libvirt routing.  Any help would
> > be much appreciated.
> 
> Try this:
> 
>   http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark.
> 

Aaah... A very good resource, thank you.
I also found this, which got me going in the right direction:

http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-xen@redhat.com/msg01527.html

Regards,
-Dustin




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