[ale] Question about networking with KVM

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 21:05:14 EST 2009


I have not used KVM so...


It sounds like the bridge used becomes the only use of the nic. Is that the
ONLY way to use networking in KVM? Can you set the nic as the gateway device
for the kvm virtual nic?

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Guys,
>
> I  been playing with kvm. But I got something strange with networking.
>
> I have set up the pan0 for my bridge
>
> bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
> pan0            8000.000000000000       no
>
> Now if I add my nic to the bridge suddenly I can't get out, but my
> virts can. What do I need to do so I can get out and use my virts with
> KVM?
>
> Here is what I am doing...
>
> brctl addif pan0 eth_s0_0
>
> brctl show
> bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
> pan0            8000.0021708a74a4       no              eth_s0_0
>
>
> Any help would be great. Thanks.
>
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