Yes macvtap should be a solution, but somehow libvirt can't turn on VM itself afterwards. Any idea? Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Thomas Lau Director of Infrastructure Tetrion Capital Limited Direct: +852-3976-8903 Mobile: +852-9323-9670 Address: 20/F, IFC 1, Central district, Hong Kong Original Message From: Stefan Hajnoczi Sent: Tuesday, 9 December, 2014 6:55 PM To: Thomas Lau Cc: kvm Subject: Re: bridge mode without network rework On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:36:12AM +0800, Thomas Lau wrote: > I just wondering is it possible not to rework our host machine network > structure to get KVM guest working on bridge mode? Current > implementation is using brctl to control it, which is destructive > especially you have a host which is using that network card to connect > internet. Are you deploying KVM and worried about the one-time downtime that might be introduced by setting up a bridged setup on the host? Once you have the bridge working you can add/remove tap interfaces from it without affecting the host's physical interface. I'm not sure I understand the problem. Perhaps macvtap is what you want: http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/MacVTap http://wiki.math.cmu.edu/iki/wiki/tips/20140303-kvm-macvtap.html Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
