Ben and Jarrod thanks very much for sharing your thoughts. I will try Jarrod's suggestion first. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:02 AM, J L <lists@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > You have assumed (as I did, when I first tried this) that the first > "-net nic" and "-net tap" are automatically associated with each > other. They aren't - you have to tell KVM explicitly. Yes, I had assumed the implicit association. > I find it easiest to think of it as if there was a (in your example > here) *four* port switch inside the KVM process - with two ports > connected to the host, and two to the guests. > > Like a real switch, in order to run two networks through it, you need > to VLAN it. > Add "vlan=1" to your first pair of "-net"'s, and "vlan=2" to the other. Although the usage of VLAN is documented in the kvm man page, this did not strike me because my mind was set with the above assumption :) I will give it a shot and post my results here. Thanks again. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
