On 12 Aug 2016 1:46 am, "Dan Ritter" <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 04:08:35PM +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > > > > > > 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: > > Suppose that your main nic is eth0. Instead of > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 10.1.7.57 > netmask 255.255.127.0 > gateway 10.1.0.1 > > > you want to change that to > > auto eth0 > > 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 > > And from then on, remember that br0 is your main nic, not eth0. > > Now you can start your kvm/qemu with: > > -device virtio-net-pci,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=$MAC,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 >
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- >
