Robert L Cochran wrote: > 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 > I have it working, thanks very much! The XML format stuff was quite helpful ( --> http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsNICS ) Bob -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
