[virt-tools-list] State of Bridge Networking?

[Eric]

Dean:

Please send the results of the commands `ifconfig -a` and `brctl show`.

Eric Pretorious
Truckee, CA




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> From: Dean Hunter <deanhunter at comcast.net>
>To: virt-tools-list at redhat.com 
>Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:29 AM
>Subject: [virt-tools-list] State of Bridge Networking?
> 
>I have learned a lot of combinations that do not work, but I must be
>missing the one little piece to make a combination work. I would like to
>configure my virtual machine guests so that they network like peers of
>the virtual machine host and the other host on the physical network. I
>would like to build two VM guests with static IP addresses; one for
>FreeIPA, which includes DNS, and one for Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP. I would
>also like to build various VM guests with dynamic IP addresses for
>client OSes. In addition, there are several peers of the VM host with
>dynamic IP addresses that I would like to also use as clients of the
>FreeIPA and LAMP VMs.
>
>I have seen that Network Manager on the VM host does not work well with
>bridges, but changes are on the way: Bug Report 199246. I have seen all
>the original configuration instructions using the network service
>instead of Network Manager, but then I have also been advised that it
>should no longer be necessary to use the network service. I have seen
>articles at linux-kvm.com about using macvtap but I have also seen bug
>reports that virt-install and virt-manager implementations do not offer
>the same capabilities for managing this option; and that their code is
>being merged to prevent this problem, but it is not ready yet.
>
>I started with the virt-manager because it seemed a simple place to
>start learning. Then I looked at virt-install so that I could script the
>VM builds to simplify testing and to document configuration choices. Now
>I am down to virsh and XML files comparing the XML before and after
>changes. I do not mind using virsh in scripts if that is the best way to
>build VMs quickly and repeatedly.
>
>Right now I have one Fedora 18 VM guest running with macvtap and a
>static IP address on a Fedora 18 VM host. The VM guest can ping to the
>Internet, but not the VM host or peers of the VM host.
>
>I welcome your suggestions.
>
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