How to bridge network

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 07:11:33AM +0000, c.buhtz at posteo.jp wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> usually I am a user of VirtualBox. There it is very easy to
> configure a VM that way that it is visible in the current local
> network (e.g. a home network with one simple rooter). You have to
> configure "bridge network" in the VM.
> 
> I tried to do this with "virt-manager", too. But it wants the name
> of a device and can't find it. I was looking around in the
> documentation and for a HowTo but couldn't find something. I only
> can find tutorials about vanially qemu configurations where I have
> to manipulate the network config files of my own host. That is not
> an option. VirtualBox can handle that by its own. And I assume that
> qemu is much more developed that VB and it is possible somehow.
> 
> I know my description is to broad for a detailed answer. But maybe
> you can point me into the right direction, give me a link to a howto
> or ask some important questions that makes me think. ;)

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

Rich.

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