---------- Original Message ----------- From: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> To: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: richard lucassen <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:28:45 +0200 Subject: Re: simple networking howto > On 12/28/2009 10:14 PM, richard lucassen wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > As there is another way to connect VM's to the hosts network apart from > > bridging, so I wrote a simple howto: > > > > http://www.xaq.nl/kvm-tap-howto.txt > > > > I have used this method quite a lot ever since I started using KVM > > (KVM-8?) > > > > Would this be useful enough to add it to the networking howto? > > > > I think so. As its own page (with a link) so as not to add to the > confusion, please. > > -- > I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this > signature is too narrow to contain. > > -- > 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 ------- End of Original Message ------- I think this from gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/KVM it's usefull for your howto Add in /etc/sysctl.conf: # # Setup bridge interface for KVM # net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables = 0 net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 0 net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables = 0 With this lines it isn't necessary the iptables rules. Best regards, Riccardo -- 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