Hi Laine, > Aside from the problem Daniel pointed out in his reply, this is probably the > *least* desirable way to get this functionality, and should only be used if you > are unable to use any other network connection type. I tried what Daniel told me. But seems there are some problems. At first, I just want get QEMU (inside the KVM) VNC output, so I redirect 590# port. But nothing happened. Then I think, "let me try ssh redirect as I want to ssh into the virtual machine". Here is my qemu option: <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-net'/> <qemu:arg value='user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:2222-:22'/> </qemu:commandline> But it doesn't work neither. No responding from "ssh user@127.0.0.1 -p 2222". I don't know what's wrong here. > What I am missing here? I also found there was a patch for user mode > port forwarding [2]. Does that mean I can write libvirt xml directly > to do port forwarding? > > > > No, that patch "died in committee"; in general it's a good idea, but it needs > to be done in a way that is useful for all types of interface, not just > usermode. Unfortunately nobody has had the combination of enough time + enough > motivation to carry it through. Shame, that's a good idea indeed. > If so, could someone give me hint on how to > write one? The last question is, do I have to change the interface > type from "network" to "user" so that I can do port forwarding? > > > No, you don't. Please take a look here: > > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking#Forwarding_Incoming_Connections > > Alternately (and a simpler solution), you could use a bridged or direct > (macvtap) network connection for your guest, and then the guest would have an > IP address directly on the physical network and no need to have any ports > forwarded. I'll try what you suggest, and see if it works. Thanks! :) Regards, chenwj -- Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任) Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667 Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users