On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 13:02 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Hello all, > > At the moment I have a running install of kvm. > I do all the virtual networking manually with help of tap adaptors and > bridges. > And I use LVM for the VMs disks. > > It is working very well, but to add a VM or to migrate it to another > host is laborious. > > Now I have started playing with libvirt, and I would like to know if > anyone else here uses the combination of kvm and libvirt? > > What is the most dynamic way of automatically setting up virtual > networks per VM? Should I use qemu-ifup? > > > I do not use routed or NATted virtual nets. only bridging.
The best way i to manually set up the bridge device via normal Gentoo means, and create a virtual nic with the host device being that bridge device. libvirt should take care of the rest.
