Open vSwitch instead of bridge (was: Re: Wow, KVM is great :-))

[Chris]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:51:00 -0400
Tom Horsley wrote:

>  On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 22:20:07 -0000
>  Raman Gupta wrote:
>  
>  > Running in the default NAT mode  
>  
>  I always use the "bridge" networking. That way the KVM looks
>  like just another machine on my local network, gets an IP from
>  the DHCP on my router, etc. And I can delete the "default"
>  network and turn off all the extra junk NAT mode makes
>  libvirtd start (dnsmasq and such). 
I also use bridge. Another solution could Open vSwitch be. It's
included since 3.x in the kernel, but haven't used it yet. Libvirt
doesn't support it I think. [1]


[1] http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/howto/libvirt/

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