[libvirt-users] libvirt bridge configuration

[Taras Lipatov]

Superb!

Thanks for the help.

Taras Lipatov
Product deployment manager,
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Justin Clift wrote:
> On 31/01/2011, at 5:52 AM, Taras Lipatov wrote:
>   
>> Hi Every one,
>>
>> I'm hoping some one can point me in the right direction.
>> We are piloting KVM + Libvirt for migrating off Xen and I'm stuck with the network bridge configuration via libvirt.
>>
>> What we have currently with xen is:
>> 1 server with Wan/lan interfaces and a pool of public ip addresses.
>> Using xen bridge scripts I'd start a xenbr0 and attach eth0 (wan) and go ahead and assign public IP's
>> to images attached to xenbr0.
>>
>> Now with creating virbr0, I need to assign it an ip address? and routing methods? what about creating a transparent bridge via libvirt?
>> I kno I can achieve this using bridge utils, but it would be nice to have everything handled by libvirt.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>     
>
> Hi Taras,
>
> Is this helpful at all?
>
>   http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/VirtualNetworking
>
> I'm thinking the "Routed" mode there might be what you're looking for?
>
> (note, the URL may change over time, as we're considering merging the info into other places, etc)
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift