[Fedora-xen] creating a private network of virtual machines
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fi
Thu Jul 7 09:52:52 UTC 2011
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 09:10:41AM +0200, Gergely Buday wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I would like to create a network of virtual machines, divided into
> private subnets so that one can exercise network configuration,
> routing etc. on them.
>
> Is Xen the right solution for me? I do not want to run heavy software
> on the machines, only the networking.
>
Yes, sure.
> And, is there any open source software that helps creating such
> network topologies?
>
Xen uses Linux kernel bridges for VM networking, so just set up as
many bridges you need in Xen dom0 Linux.
If you don't attach any physical/external interfaces to the bridges,
they're "internal only" with no access to outside network.
-- Pasi
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