Greetings all, I have a host machine that runs a router within a vm. I want to allow a connection between the host and the guest so the host can connect to the lan provided by the router vm. I've created a dummy interface with these commands: $ ip link add ens99-dummy type dummy $ ip link set ens99-dummy address 52:54:00:1f:d0:ff this resulted with this output: $ ifconfig ens99-dummy ens99-dummy Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:1F:D0:FF inet6 addr: fe80::84b5:24ff:fe62:c16d/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:899 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:321727 (314.1 KiB) in my libvirt's xml file I have this entry: <interface type='direct'> <mac address='52:54:00:0c:cb:3e'/> <source dev='ens99-dummy' mode='private'/> <target dev='macvtap0'/> <model type='e1000'/> <alias name='net0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </interface> after the vm is up, I see the adapter in the vm and the host has one more entry: $ ifconfig macvtap0 macvtap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:0C:CB:3E inet6 addr: fe80::5054:ff:fe0c:cb3e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:889 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:320523 (313.0 KiB) but when I try to request ip via dhcp from both macvtap0 and ens99-dummy I don't get any. any idea why? _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users