Hi Peter,
I had not anticipated this much response. I do have VLANs on my
switch(s). We are a modest operation and I configure without the use of
any config tool as such.
I would love to see your configuration, even if for Puppet, I expect it
will be informative/helpful!
Thanks for the offer.
*Paul O'Rorke*/ <http://www.tracker-software.com/downloads/>
On 2020-06-29 1:01 p.m., Peter Crowther wrote:
Paul, if you can set up a VLAN on your network infrastructure between
the two hosts, I'll share the recipe I use with Open VSwitch. We
trunk a VLAN between our hosts for sandboxed guests, setting up a OVS
bridge on each host that handles guests but also has a connection onto
the VLAN. Are you using any configuration tool? I've got this in
Puppet but should be able to convert to a shell script.
Cheers,
- Peter
On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 17:45, Paul O'Rorke <p...@tracker-software.com
<mailto:p...@tracker-software.com>> wrote:
Thanks Laine,
I will take a look at Open vSwitch, it looks interesting.
I am a generalist, I need to know enough about a lot of things to
get many different tasks done, but do not have the in depth
knowledge required to "patch" anything. If I manage to wrangle a
working solution should I post it?
Needless to say I would be supportive of said feature being
implemented by those more competent than I...
Jocularity aside, thanks for the heads up on Open vSwitch.
*Paul O'Rorke*
On 2020-06-29 9:13 a.m., Laine Stump wrote:
On 6/29/20 11:01 AM, Paul O'Rorke wrote:
Hi all,
I couldn't find any documentation on this, hopefully someone can
point me in the right direction.
I recently set up a sand-boxed environment for our developers.
There are domain controller(s), workstations and servers in
there. The whole thing is running on a single host using a
"Virtual Network" defined in virt-manager on that host.
Now I find I want to add more guests and there are not enough
resources on this one host. Can I somehow make this Virtual
Network available to two hosts? I do not want to move to a
bridged network and have to physically join the two hosts with a
discrete link when they are already on the same subnet at the
host level.
Is that possible?
You might be able to this using OpenvSwitch (iow "probably can,
but I don't know the details" :-)) but libvirt doesn't have
anything to set it up for you; you would need to create and
configure the OVS switch outside of libvirt, then attach the
libvirt guests to that switch (using "<interface type='bridge'>
... <virtualport type='openvswitch'> ...")
I've idly thought about having this as a libvirt feature over the
years, but as I never have that many guests, it was never a
personal priority, and it wasn't immediately clear what was the
best way to handle, e.g. DHCP, and routing to the outside.
Definitely "patches are welcome" though :-)
