Re: [CentOS] Connecting ethX devices directly to a KVM/QEMU guest OS (no bridging)

2012-01-19 Thread Chuck Munro
On 01/19/2012 09:00 AM, Tait Clarridge wrote: I've Googled until I'm blue in the face, but haven't found a clear explanation of how I can assign each ethX device directly to the guest OS rather than going thru the usual bridge configuration. I need to allow the m0n0wall OS to

Re: [CentOS] Connecting ethX devices directly to a KVM/QEMU guest OS (no bridging)

2012-01-19 Thread Tait Clarridge
But a new problem arises ... one of the m0n0wall instances needs to use DHCP to get a dynamic IP from my ISP (the others are static, so they're ok). How do I get the bridge to proxy the DHCP request and forward the response to the VM guest? I brought up a test instance of m0n0wall but

[CentOS] Connecting ethX devices directly to a KVM/QEMU guest OS (no bridging)

2012-01-18 Thread Chuck Munro
Hello CentOS gurus, and a belated Happy New Year (or an early Happy Chinese New Year). I'm in the process of building a CentOS-6 KVM host machine whose only function will be to run four independent 'm0n0wall' firewall guest instances. I have a couple of quad-port Intel NICs to provide four

Re: [CentOS] Connecting ethX devices directly to a KVM/QEMU guest OS (no bridging)

2012-01-18 Thread Tait Clarridge
I've Googled until I'm blue in the face, but haven't found a clear explanation of how I can assign each ethX device directly to the guest OS rather than going thru the usual bridge configuration. I need to allow the m0n0wall OS to assign the LAN and WAN IP addresses, if that's possible

Re: [CentOS] Connecting ethX devices directly to a KVM/QEMU guest OS (no bridging)

2012-01-18 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 01/18/2012 05:49 PM, Tait Clarridge wrote: Create the 8 bridges that you need and go from there, you should be able to assign them in Virtual Machine Manager to the VMs. Hello Tait, I'm learning about ethernet bridges and how it is applied to virtual networking. It seems that, in the past,

Re: [CentOS] Connecting ethX devices directly to a KVM/QEMU guest OS (no bridging)

2012-01-18 Thread Tait Clarridge
My question is: are the taps being used behind the scenes (is it something libvirt does for us) or are the tap interfaces obsolete now? Thanks, Jorge Yes, as far as I know in Xen/KVM the tap devices are connected behind the scenes to the bridge you specify in the config.