I have learned a lot of combinations that do not work, but I must be missing the one little piece to make a combination work. I would like to configure my virtual machine guests so that they network like peers of the virtual machine host and the other host on the physical network. I would like to build two VM guests with static IP addresses; one for FreeIPA, which includes DNS, and one for Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP. I would also like to build various VM guests with dynamic IP addresses for client OSes. In addition, there are several peers of the VM host with dynamic IP addresses that I would like to also use as clients of the FreeIPA and LAMP VMs. I have seen that Network Manager on the VM host does not work well with bridges, but changes are on the way: Bug Report 199246. I have seen all the original configuration instructions using the network service instead of Network Manager, but then I have also been advised that it should no longer be necessary to use the network service. I have seen articles at linux-kvm.com about using macvtap but I have also seen bug reports that virt-install and virt-manager implementations do not offer the same capabilities for managing this option; and that their code is being merged to prevent this problem, but it is not ready yet. I started with the virt-manager because it seemed a simple place to start learning. Then I looked at virt-install so that I could script the VM builds to simplify testing and to document configuration choices. Now I am down to virsh and XML files comparing the XML before and after changes. I do not mind using virsh in scripts if that is the best way to build VMs quickly and repeatedly. Right now I have one Fedora 18 VM guest running with macvtap and a static IP address on a Fedora 18 VM host. The VM guest can ping to the Internet, but not the VM host or peers of the VM host. I welcome your suggestions. _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
