> Subject: Bridge issue with KVM > > Having beaten this to death in the kvm list, perhaps someone here can > give me a clue. I am trying to run simple servers in kvm, using a host > with a single NIC, a bridge which connects to the NIC, and then running > a small server using KVM. > > Everything works perfectly EXCEPT DHCP requests from the VM reach the > bridge (I can tcpdump them on the host) but never go to the actual NIC > to reach the DHCP server and be resolved. Since I started looking I > have > found related problems in the kvm list, the kernel list, and several > discussion sites. I really don't want to "use static routing and forget > it," because I want to set the MAC address as I start the VM and then > let DHCP do everything else. > > Is there some parameter I need to set on the bridge to make this > happen? Maybe this could help here? http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Bridge#Does_DHCP_work_over.2Fthrough_a_bridge.3F -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
