How to bridge network

Bruce Ferrell bferrell at baywinds.org
Mon Oct 3 20:03:09 UTC 2022


On 10/3/22 11:38 AM, c.buhtz at posteo.jp wrote:
> On 2022-10-02 14:21 "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>> It's definitely much harder than it needs to be, but the documentation
>> is here:
>>
>> https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking#Bridged_networking_.28aka_.22shared_physical_device.22.29
> I wouldn't call this docu.
>
> It is frustrating that a low-feature application like VirtualBox is
> able to that out of the box but qemu is not.

I'm a virtualbox user as well.

As I understand it, virtualbox has a built in bridge that is used for this purpose and makes the various network configurations somewhat transparent.

Having professionally supported qemu/KVM/libvirt in enterprise products, I can say it is a bit more complex to set up, but it's much more flexible and powerful. When you add in PCI 
pass through, I'd say it's a worthwhile trade




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