[libvirt-users] layer2 tunnel between guests across hosts

Laine Stump laine at laine.org
Tue Dec 3 15:03:37 UTC 2013


On 12/03/2013 11:45 AM, sujay g wrote:
> Hi,
> Is it possible to setup layer2 tunnels between guests across hosts?
> Using vrbr? -- i.e the Guest is unaware.
>
> On Host 1:
>   guest (a) --- vrbr0 ------- 
>                                   |
>                                   |
>  On Host 2:                  |
>    guest(b) -- vrbr0 ------
>
>
> Has there been any work done around it?

There's no direct support for that in libvirt's network definitions, but
it would be a nice addition. Patches are always welcome (in this case
you would probably want to send a proposal for the XML changes for the
network definition to libvir-list first before spending any time writing
code).




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