Hi, Aleksei! I like the conversation style instead of top posting (if you don't mind ;-) . Less typing, and much clearer the line of discussion.
On 161013-10:11+0300, Aleksei wrote: > Hi, > > If you want VM to use host's physical NIC exclusively, then do a PCI > pass-through. I had already figured that... And I also figured that the bridging would bring me, just what you write: > If you just want VM to be on the same network as one of the NIC's, then > do the bridging. Create a bridge on the host, make that NIC a slave, > specify that bridge in Qemu command line. See here for details: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Bridged_networking_using_qemu-bridge-helper > > and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_bridge I had also visited, previously, these and many other pages about Qemu. But my problem is that the way my network cards in my Gentoo machine, which sometimes functions as router for local network, are configured, and its how their naming "naturally" comes up consistently after every boot, [the way my network cards in my Gentoo machine] is: eth0 -- local network [when used] eth1 -- local network [when used] eth2 -- connection to broadband router And my problem is, I can't firure out the way to get qemu to try and get either the passthrough or the bridging slave, via any other than: eth0 (which, of course, fails). > > /--Regards, Aleksei/ Thanks for offering your help! So, basically I'm studying further... And will be thankful if anybody has any pointers to where to look for the solution... The below is, more or less, in the same line as what I restated today... > > Either for pass-through (the default, the SLIRP, IIUC), or I had > > previously tried to set a tap0 device to a host br0, but couldn't get > > qemu to set the image it boots to use one of a few NIC cards. > > > > Concrete setup is three NIC cards: > > eth0 > > eth1 > > eth2 > > > > And the question is simple: what -netdev options (or is there some other > > way?) do I use to get qemu to use eth2? See this: > > Because it invariably chooses eth0. > > > > I tried several images, such as Tails and Devuan. Always chooses: eth0. That above is the crux of the matter. Studying: http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html where find this line: -netdev tap,id=id[,fd=h][,ifname=name][,script=file][,downscript=dfile][,helper=helper] (it is one line, just greater than 79 char, so broken) I thought maybe the solution would be somewhere in those, if I set a tap device and enslave it to eth2 enslaved to bridge (the bridge I was previously able to create, and it worked, but only for eth2) ... But how do I get a file decriptor of eth2 ? Thanks if anybody gives more help on this! -- Miroslav Rovis Zagreb, Croatia http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr
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