[libvirt] FW: macvtap not working on rhel 6.1 x86 machine
Gerhard Stenzel
gstenzel at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Dec 15 11:33:18 UTC 2011
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 15:54 +0530, Amit Tewari wrote:
> hi,
>
> i want the kvm guest machine to connect to network using macvtap..
> I tried this vepa mode it is also not working.
where is your DHCP server? On the network or on your host?
> eth0 has same mac address as that of macvatap0 that is 52:54:00:55:AE:B5
this is correct. The mac address of eth0 in the guest is the same as
that of the macvtap device of the host.
> due to this guest is not able to get dhcp address nor static ip address is working.
it works for me. I am on 6.2 now, but this worked on 6.1 as well.
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Best regards,
Gerhard Stenzel,
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