On 05/03/2014 02:21 PM, John Smith wrote: > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Cole Robinson <crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 05/03/2014 09:25 AM, John Smith wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> Im currently looking at using virt-tools (virt-manager, virt-sh ) in >>> combination with macvtap and the kvm hypervisor. I havent found an >>> obvious way yet of telling the virt-tools to configure/use macvtpa >>> devices. Have I overlooked something obvious here ? >>> >> >> In any virt-manager version from the past 1.5 years: >> >> VM Details >> Select the NIC >> In the 'source' drop down, you should see macvtap options. >> >> - Cole >> > > Ah. Thanks. Im very sorry, but im very new to virtualization on Linux. > > Right now, ive done the 'all in one install' of ovirt on a single > fedora 19 machine. Any pointers to docs on what best to do next is > appreciated. Im currently trying to make sense of this: > http://www.ovirt.org/Quick_Start_Guide > So perhaps the macvtap question was not entirely the best place to > start here for me. > ;) > > Anyway, as far as I can tell, there seems to be an issue with the > detection of my wireless wifi network interface 'wlp2s0'. I can attach > the 'ovirtmgmt' network to my standard wired ethernet interface > 'p2p2', but that device is not in use on the machine and it is > disconnected from the network. > > Reading about linux virt and issues with bridging with wifi NIC's on > the web made me, perhaps incorrectly here, assume that a wifi nic > might be an issue, so thats where the question about macvtap came > from. > > Manual setup of macvtap seems to work, as i can do this without issues > on a root prompt on the same machine: > > ip link add link wlp2s0 name macvtap0 type macvtap > ip link set macvtap0 address 1a:46:0b:ca:bc:7b up > ip link show macvtap0 > > But the wifi interface 'wlp2s0' does not seem to show up in the ovirt > web gui interface. > > Im sorry if I sound confusing here, but that may be just because im > really still confused about ovirt. > ;) > > So any pointers on what to read or do is appreciated, Never really tried with wifi myself, and I'm not too familiar with ovirt either :) Maybe try one of their user lists - Cole _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
