On 12 Aug 2016 1:46 am, "Dan Ritter" <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 04:08:35PM +0100, Andrew Wood wrote:
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> > On 11/08/16 13:47, Igor Cicimov wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > What type of network card did you create the vm with? You need to use
> > > the virtio virtual network interface in your vm configuration.
> > >
> > Thanks for your reply. I wondered about that but the QEMU wiki doesnt seem
> > to detail how to configure it to to what I want. I will need to specify more
> > than just --net nic,model=virtio ? Presumably using this I could give it a
> > 'real' IP address on the network rather than asking QEMU to do port
> > forwarding?
>
> In that case, you want to change your host computer's config:
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> Suppose that your main nic is eth0. Instead of
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> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 10.1.7.57
> netmask 255.255.127.0
> gateway 10.1.0.1
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>
> you want to change that to
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> auto eth0
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> auto br0
> iface br0 inet static
> address 10.1.7.57
> netmask 255.255.127.0
> gateway 10.1.0.1
> bridge_ports eth0
> bridge_maxwait 1
> bridge_stp on
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> And from then on, remember that br0 is your main nic, not eth0.
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> Now you can start your kvm/qemu with:
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> -device virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=$MAC,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
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Just a note here to avoid confusion, have in mind that qemu vlan, ie vlan=0 above, is *not* the same as 802.1q vlan's its just an internal qemu way for traffic segmentation. Think OpenVswitch vlan tags if you want.
> (remember to specify the MAC address, or use
> livirtd/virt-manager to take care of setup details for you)
>
> -dsr-
>