Todd Deshane wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Robert L Cochran > <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> To my pleasure, I was able to get two different virtual machines running >> pretty quickly. I installed Fedora 10 x86_64 on my new laptop with the >> Virtualization package group and as little else as possible. Then I >> updated the system (so now I'm using kvm-74-6-fc10.x86_64), started the >> graphical Virtual Machine Manager, and built a guest for Windows XP >> Professional and a second guest for Fedora 10 x86_64. >> >> I want the Fedora 10 guest to fetch an IP address of 192.168.1.115 from >> the dhcp server running on my network. Virtual Machine Manager seems to >> be creating it's very own dhcp server and assigning network addresses of >> 192.168.122.2 and higher. So I can't ping the guest I just created from >> a host on the 192.168.1.0 network. >> >> The networking behavior VMWare gives me results in my virtual machines >> getting their addresses from the dhcp server on the 192.168.1.0 network, >> so the host IP I'm expecting for a machine is the one that is assigned >> and used. >> >> How do I change the networking in Virtual Machine Manager to simply pass >> all the dhcp calls to my network? Or is there a good reason to let the >> Manager do its own 192.168.122.x network? >> >> > > I don't know specifically about Virtual Machine Manager and don't have it > handy, but for the basic concepts of KVM networking and also the libvirt > style and nomenclature see the following links: > > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking > http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Networking > > The Virtual Machine Manager page may have some information that > could help you: > > http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/screenshots/networking.html > > Hope that helps. > > Cheers, > Todd > > Todd, Thank you. This is very useful and helpful. It looks like I need to configure bridged networking. From the Fedora 10 release notes, Network Manager does not support virtual devices, so I'll have to disable it and roll my own. Bob -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
