Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 05:54:14PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: > > Now I want to bring up a VM with two NICs, one attached to tap12 > (bridge 0), the other on tap11 (bridge 1), but I think I've > misunderstood the versious "-net" options as described in the kvm man > page. It *seems* to say that

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:05:48PM -0400, Stephane Bakhos wrote: >> >> I tried "fd=" instead of "name=", but that looks for a file descriptor >> instead of a network interface name, and I didn't even know that Linux >> had file descriptors for network interfaces let alone how to map them >> to a ta

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 06:22:56PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: > >>   # kvm -m 512M -net nic -net tap,name=tap11 -net nic -net > >> tap,name=tap12 -hda /vmstore/wee -vnc :11 -cdrom > >> /path/to/my/Windows.iso -boot d > > > > The parameter is "ifname", not "name". > > In that case, what does the "

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:12:19AM +0200, Andreas Plesner Jacobsen wrote: > >> > >> I tried "fd=" instead of "name=", but that looks for a file descriptor > >> instead of a network interface name, and I didn't even know that Linux > >>

Re: kvm-85: virtio-blk not working

2009-04-23 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:43:03AM +0200, Gerd v. Egidy wrote: > > I am (or better libvirt is) starting the guest like this: > > -drive file=/dev/VolGroup00/testboot,if=ide,index=0 \ > -drive file=/dev/VolGroup00/testvirt,if=virtio,index=1 \ Both should have index=0 (or no index at all), since t

Re: kvm-85: virtio-blk not working

2009-04-23 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 06:57:45PM +0200, Gerd v. Egidy wrote: > > sorry, I'm not getting that far to make this a problem. I just added the > second disk (the virtio one) to test if virtio is working when the guest is > running. > > I first tried it with just one virtio disk and no ide ones:

Re: net packet storms with multiple NICs

2009-10-23 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 08:25:39PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > o why different -net guest -net host pairs are not getting different > vlan= indexes by default, to stop the above-mentioned packet > storms right away? I think it's a wise default to assign different > pairs to different v