Thanks Laine,
I will take a look at Open vSwitch, it looks interesting.
I am a generalist, I need to know enough about a lot of things to get many different tasks done, but do not have the in depth knowledge required to "patch" anything. If I manage to wrangle a working solution should I post it?
Needless to say I would be supportive of said feature being
implemented by those more competent than I...
Jocularity aside, thanks for the heads up on Open vSwitch.
Paul O'Rorke
On 2020-06-29 9:13 a.m., Laine Stump
wrote:
On 6/29/20 11:01 AM, Paul O'Rorke wrote:
Hi all,
I couldn't find any documentation on this, hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
I recently set up a sand-boxed environment for our developers. There are domain controller(s), workstations and servers in there. The whole thing is running on a single host using a "Virtual Network" defined in virt-manager on that host.
Now I find I want to add more guests and there are not enough resources on this one host. Can I somehow make this Virtual Network available to two hosts? I do not want to move to a bridged network and have to physically join the two hosts with a discrete link when they are already on the same subnet at the host level.
Is that possible?
You might be able to this using OpenvSwitch (iow "probably can, but I don't know the details" :-)) but libvirt doesn't have anything to set it up for you; you would need to create and configure the OVS switch outside of libvirt, then attach the libvirt guests to that switch (using "<interface type='bridge'> ... <virtualport type='openvswitch'> ...")
I've idly thought about having this as a libvirt feature over the years, but as I never have that many guests, it was never a personal priority, and it wasn't immediately clear what was the best way to handle, e.g. DHCP, and routing to the outside. Definitely "patches are welcome" though :-)
