On Friday 21 August 2009 10:27:35 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
New to virtualsation how does one go about disabling the default
rfc1918
dhcp server ( or leave it running ) and manually assign a public ip
address to vm's?
I am also new to qemu-kvm virtualization. I have been working out networking
myself right now.
I believe what you want/need is "bridged" networking interface which will
allow putting your guest on your local network just like a "real" system. See
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking#Fedora.2FRHEL_Bridging
for the process. Don't worry, the changes will add the "br0" interface in
place of the eth0 (or whatever) which your host will now use. When you create
a new guest (or add network hardware to an old one), you can specify the "br0"
interface instead of the "default" NAT interface.
Note -- there are ways to assign static IPs on the NAT interface but any guest
using the NAT interface will not (cannot) be seen from another system.
Gene