On Sunday 04 April 2010 15.00:26 sudhir kumar wrote: > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Dan Johansson <kvm@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am new to this list and to KVM (and qemu) so please be gentle with me. > > Up until now I have been running my virtualizing using VMWare-Server. > > Now I want to try KVM due to some issues with the VMWare-Server and I am > > having some troubles with the networking part of KVM. > > > > This is a small example of what I want (best viewed in a fix-font): > > > > +-----------------------------------+ > > | Host | > > | +----------+ eth0 |---- 192.168.1.0/24 > > | | eth0|-- + | > > | | VM1 eth1|---(---+------- eth1 |---- 192.168.2.0/24 > > | | eth2|---(---(---+ | > > | +----------+ | | | | > > | | | | | > > | +----------+ +---(---(--- eth2 |---- 192.168.1.0/24 > > | | eth0|---+ | | | > > | | VM2 eth1|-------+ +--- eth3 |---- 192.168.3.0/24 > > | | eth2|-----------+ | > > | +----------+ | > > | | > > +-----------------------------------+ > > > > Host-eth0 is only for the Host (no VM) > > Host-eth1 is shared between the Host and the VM's (VM?-eth1) > > Host-eth2 and Host-eth3 are only for the VMs (eth0 and eth2) > > > > The Host and the VMs all have fixed IPs (no dhcp or likewise). > > In this example th IPs could be: > > Host-eth0: 192.168.1.1 > > Host-eth1: 192.168.2.1 > > Host-eth2: - > > Host-eth3: - > > VM1-eth0: 192.168.1.11 > > VM1-eth1: 192.168.2.11 > > VM1-eth2: 192.168.3.11 > > VM2-eth0: 192.168.1.22 > > VM2-eth1: 192.168.2.22 > > VM3-eth2: 192.168.3.22 > > > > And, yes, Host-eth0 and Host-eth2 are in the same subnet, with eth0 > > dedicated to the Host and eth2 dedicated to the VMs. > > > > In VMWare this was quite easy to setup (three bridged networks). > > Its easy with KVM too. You want 3 NICs per VM, so you need to pass the > corresponding parameters(including qemu-ifup script) for 3 NICs to > each VM. > In the host you need to create 2 bridges: say br-eth1 and br-eth2. > Make them as the interface on the host in place of the corresponding > eth interfaces.(brct addbr br-eth1; ifcfg eth1 0.0.0.0 up; brctl addif > br-eth eth1; assign eth1's ip and routes to breth1; same for eth2). > In the corresponding qemu-ifup scripts of each interface use > bridge=br-ethN (This basicaly translates to brctl addif br-ethN $1, > where $ is the tap device created) > This should work perfectly fine with your existing NW setup. > For a quick reference use: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Networking Thanks for your help, but... I am still not able to get it to work the way I want. This is what I have don so far: brctl addbr br-eth1 brctl addbr br-eth3 ip link set eth1 up ip link set eth3 up brctl addif br-eth1 eth1 brctl addif br-eth3 eth3 tunctl -b -t qtap1 tunctl -b -t qtap3 brctl addif br-eth1 qtap1 brctl addif br-eth3 qtap3 ifconfig qtap1 up 0.0.0.0 promisc ifconfig qtap3 up 0.0.0.0 promisc # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0d:88:52:51:24 inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:443638 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:758540 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:47041686 (44.8 MiB) TX bytes:990115354 (944.2 MiB) Interrupt:19 Base address:0xec00 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0d:88:52:51:25 inet addr:192.168.4.1 Bcast:192.168.4.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:6 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:360 (360.0 B) Interrupt:18 Base address:0xe880 eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0d:88:52:51:27 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:240 (240.0 B) Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe480 qtap1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:c0:de:df:c5:e4 UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:14742 (14.3 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) qtap3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:3e:ba:2d:97:bc UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:252 (252.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) # brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br-eth1 8000.000d88525125 no eth1 qtap1 br-eth3 8000.000d88525127 no eth3 qtap3 This is the way I start the guest: kvm -net nic,vlan=1,model=rtl8139,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:56 -net tap,vlan=1,ifname=qtap1,script=no,downscript=no -net nic,vlan=3,model=rtl8139,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:58 -net tap,vlan=3,ifname=qtap3,script=no,downscript=no Robbie.img -m 1024 The eth3/br-eth3/qtap3 looks OK (I can ping the "default-GW" on that network from the guest) but the connection to the "shared" interface (eth1/br- eth1/qtap1) does not work, I can not ping or ssh to/from the guest from/to the host. Do not ask me if I can ping any other host on that network - there are no other host on the network yet, just the Host and the guest. Any suggestions? -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *************************************************** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! *************************************************** -- 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