On 2018-12-30 3:04 a.m., Reco wrote:
Hi. On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 06:40:57PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:Any suggestions?Keep your bonding as it is. Forget about conventional Linux bridges, and do not use them ever. Reconfigure your virtual machines to use macvtap (like suggested here - [1]), you'll need 'bridge' mode. Reco [1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/virtualization_administration_guide/sect-attch-nic-physdev
Thanks Reco. I just went to my server's site (I lost remote access with the current network setup) and reconfigured the network to use macvtap for bridge. Once I did that it worked like a charm.
After getting rid of the /etc/network/interfaces file (again) and reinstating the [network] section of my /etc/systermd/network/management.xml file to assign a static IP, all I had to do was use
virsh edit <servername>to modify the network settings. Basically I changed the entire network interface segment to:
<interface type='direct'> <mac address='xx:x:xx:xx:xx:xx'/> <source dev='bond0' mode='bridge'/> </interface>where you would replace the "xx" with a valid mac address. When I opened the virtual machine using the Virtual Machine Manager gui, I noticed it wanted to use an rtl8139 device for the nic, so I changed that to virtio then fired it up.
Everything is running great. I've got the remote access back and the local area network is behaving itself.