have a look at openvswitch ... gives more flexibility and is relatively easy to use. I am using fake-bridges with vlans for something like this (mythbackend running in a vm on a media vlan with a hdhomerun and other frontends, and a public vlan for other traffic)
BillK On 18/07/13 02:28, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > > Hi, > > I need some help settling up networking with KVM machines. > > I have one public interface with four publicly accessible IPs. > > I want to run a private virtual network for the VMs, such that every > VM can access every other VM and host, also host can access every VM > (required for NAT). > > So far I tried this: > > Create two tap interfaces. > Add them to a bridge > Assign IP to bridge > Set different MACs for VMs' NICs. > > This let's me access one VM to another also VM to host (not sure about > this, ping works). > But I'm not able to use host to VM (ping works), I'm not able to > connect to sshd running inside VM from host. >
