[Fedora-xen] KVM Networking Question

[Robert L Cochran]

Todd Deshane wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Robert L Cochran
> <cochranb at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>   
>> To my pleasure, I was able to get two different virtual machines running
>> pretty quickly. I installed Fedora 10 x86_64 on my new laptop with the
>> Virtualization package group and as little else as possible. Then I
>> updated the system (so now I'm using kvm-74-6-fc10.x86_64), started the
>> graphical Virtual Machine Manager, and built a guest for Windows XP
>> Professional and a second guest for Fedora 10 x86_64.
>>
>> I want the Fedora 10 guest to fetch an IP address of 192.168.1.115 from
>> the dhcp server running on my network. Virtual Machine Manager seems to
>> be creating it's very own dhcp server and assigning network addresses of
>> 192.168.122.2 and higher. So I can't ping the guest I just created from
>> a host on the 192.168.1.0 network.
>>
>> The networking behavior VMWare gives me results in my virtual machines
>> getting their addresses from the dhcp server on the 192.168.1.0 network,
>> so the host IP I'm expecting for a machine is the one that is assigned
>> and used.
>>
>> How do I change the networking in Virtual Machine Manager to simply pass
>> all the dhcp calls to my network? Or is there a good reason to let the
>> Manager do its own 192.168.122.x network?
>>
>>     
>
> I don't know specifically about Virtual Machine Manager and don't have it
> handy, but for the basic concepts of KVM networking and also the libvirt
> style and nomenclature see the following links:
>
> http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking
> http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Networking
>
> The Virtual Machine Manager page may have some information that
> could help you:
>
> http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/screenshots/networking.html
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Todd
>
>   
Todd,

Thank you. This is very useful and helpful. It looks like I need to
configure bridged networking. From the Fedora 10 release notes, Network
Manager does not support virtual devices, so I'll have to disable it and
roll my own.

Bob