It seems I am having a lot of trouble setting up even the simplest of cloudstack networking configurations.
A quick background on my setup: The kvm host is part of a network of machines that gets their IPs from the router. I intend to set up cloudstack to extend our development infrastructure, VMs in the cloud will function just like physical machines on the network and depend on the router for dhcp and dns. My intention is to have cloudstack manage the provisioning of VMs and provide analysis of the cloud resources (memory, storage etc). Pretty straightforward stuff here. My initial setup actually worked out ok - I created a zone with basic networking (DefaultSharedNetworkOfferingWithSGService) and guest VMs were assigned IPs according to the range I specified. The VMs had access to the internet and were able to connect to other machines on the network, but DNS did not work. My sys admin was also curious about whether the virtual router was leasing out IPs to physical machines on the network, could this happen? Is is better for hosts to have static IP addresses? I then scratched the initial setup and created a new network offering without DHCP, and used that instead. For this configuration, no virtual router came up, VMs seem to be getting IPs from the external router, but none of them can connect to physical machines on the network/the internet. I feel like i'm close to getting the right configuration, and might just be missing a small detail. I'm not ready to give up yet, even though I'm out of ideas at this point. Any suggestions/help is much appreciated. Thanks for reading! Wei On Mar 7, 2013, at 6:22 PM, Bryan Whitehead <dri...@megahappy.net<mailto:dri...@megahappy.net>> wrote: Create a new network offering without DHCP. After you do that create a new guest network using that network offering / vlan. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Wei Leong <wle...@blackducksoftware.com<mailto:wle...@blackducksoftware.com>>wrote: Is there an easy way from the UI to create a network without using the virtual router? I'm running configured cloudstack with basic networking and the cloudstack server sits in our network that already has a dhcp/server setup. I would like my guest VMs to just that instead of the virtual router. According to this blog it is possible but only through the API, is there an alternative? http://blog.remibergsma.com/2012/03/10/howto-create-a-network-in-cloudstack-without-a-virtual-router/
