[Fedora-xen] Using Wireless Connection In KVM

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Thu Dec 18 10:19:07 UTC 2008


Robert L Cochran wrote:
> How can I get my Fedora 10 guest to use a wireless connection? Do I need
> to configure a wireless "bridge" adapter? That is, if the wired adapter
> bridge is ifcfg-eth0 referencing "br0" perhaps I need a second named
> ifcfg-wlan0 referencing "br1"?

No.  wlan adapters can't handle more than one mac address, thus hooking
it into the bridge to share it simply isn't going to work.

> In short: does anyone have wireless working for Fedora 10, KVM guests?
> If yes, can the configuration details be shared with me? I'm dying to
> use wireless in my guest. Laptops were never meant for long trailing
> wires if you ask me...

Use NAT (aka libvirt/virt-manager's 'default' network).

cheers,
  Gerd




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