[libvirt] networking static ip address

[Francisco José Martín]

Thanks for the input.

Then, I suppose there's no way to assign the IP on boot without DHCP, there
is?

Can it be done without using <network> type elements?

Regards,

  Francisco.



On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 19:52, Ulrich Dangel <uli at spamt.net> wrote:

> On Friday 20 February 2009 13:54:20 Francisco José Martín wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > We have tried several ways to assign a static ip address to the guest os
> > eth0 device on boot, but we didn't success. Is there any easy way to do
> it?
>
> Yes. Create a network definition, specify a host element to the dhcp
> definition, attach the machine to the created bridge and it should work.
>
> <network>
>  <name>sample</name>
>  <forward dev='eth0' mode='nat'/>
>  <bridge name='intbr0' stp='on' forwardDelay='0' />
>  <ip address='192.168.122.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'>
>    <dhcp>
>      <range start='192.168.122.2' end='192.168.122.254' />
>      <host mac='AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF' ip='192.168.122.102'/>
>    </dhcp>
>  </ip>
> </network>
>
> Snippet for the domain definition:
>
> <interface type='bridge'>
>  <mac address='AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF'/>
>  <source bridge='intbr0'/>
>  <target dev='vnet0'/>
> </interface>
>
>
> > When the guest OS is booted, the eth0 device exists, but is not up, and
> > doesn't have the IP.
>
> Is dnsmasq installed and running? Does the guest system use dhcp?
>
> Uli
>
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