The 2nd link is pretty interesting if your HW/OS supports VF and it does contain the note about making MacVTap work. If you're concerned about the risk warning you can get it via web archives here (though it may take a while to load) : https://web.archive.org/web/20201109025659/https://www.linuxsecrets.com/3417-creating-kvm-virtual-passthrough
NB. virt-manager is only a gui/tool for managing VMs under qemu/kvm (linux host as a type 1 hypervisor effectively) whereas VirtualBox is a type 2 hypervisor (running under the host) and gui in one .. so most of your issues with virtualisation are going to be qemu/kvm related rather than virt-manager related. You do get near native performance in your VMs with qemu/kvm though. There are other tools for managing your qemu/kvm VMs - see https://www.libvirt.org/index.html
On Thursday, 20 October 2022 at 14:28:47 BST, Mihai Dobrescu <msdobrescu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
H, thanks for the tips.
It is a simple selection/option in VirtualBox, a nobrainer selection.
I'll read the first link, bur the second gives a security warning, so I'll skip.
I wish there is a simple choice in virt-manager UI too.
Best Regards.
On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 4:05 PM Bob Power <b_power@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not sure this is a virt-manager question: probably more of a general virtual networking question.Curious: Did you have this in VirtualBox ?Anyway, I'd look at MacVTap - Linux Virtualization Wiki- " Typically, this is used to make both the guest and the host show up directly on the switch that the host is connected to.".... I tried it in RHEL 8.4 (at the time) but had unworkable performance issues but later found a note about "intel_iommu=pt" athttps://www.linuxsecrets.com/3417-creating-kvm-virtual-passthrough which might address that. ( the VF stuff there not supported in RHEL last I looked )Currently I use PCI passthru to use a 2nd host NIC directly in a VM but then that only works for 1 VM so if you have an unspecified number of VMs that's not gonna work for you.Sorry can't be of more help.On Wednesday, 19 October 2022 at 21:42:02 BST, Mihai Dobrescu <msdobrescu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi,I've switched from VirtualBox to Virt Manager and I need to have virtual machines in the same subnet as the host.How could I achieve that? I've spent all day looking at various articles on how to do that, but I could not manage to achieve it.Is there a reliable step by step procedure?I use a Gentoo derivative.Thank you,Mihai Sorin Dobrescu
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