F15 / VirtualBox

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 21:49:38 UTC 2011


Gilboa Davara wrote:

>  
>> > 1. Easy setup of networking (bridged).
>> Just to followup, to setup bridged net on kvm I need to reboot my server.
>> That's a non-starter.
> 
> And long as you're will to do the hard work yourself, there's no need to
> reboot your machine.
> 
> 1. Create a bridge configuration for each target network devices (E.g.
> ifcfg-vbr0 for ifcfg-eth0).
> 2. Mark the ethX device as IP-less and boot-protocol-less (IPADDR=,
> IPV6_ADDR=, BOOTPROTO=none) and bridge controlled (BRIDGE=brX),
> configure the bridge device (DEVICE=brX, TYPE=Brdige, IPADDR, IPV6_ADDR,
> etc)
> 2. Disable NM on both the bridge and the Ethernet device
> (NM_CONTROLLED=no).
> 3. Restart NM. (Or disable it if all your Ethernet devices are bridged)
> 4. Enable and start network service.
> (If you don't want to interrupt incoming connections, you'll have to
> start each network device by hand)
> 5. Profit.
> 
> At worse, you'll have a 2-3 second interruption while the bridge assumes
> the IP address originally held by the Ethernet device.
> 
> - Gilboa
> 
> 

Thanks for the info.  Still, VB allows me to setup bridge net with 1 click of 
the gui.  I'd sure like to see that in qemu/kvm.



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