From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kvm and libvirt
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:06:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301414807.161471.1.camel@victoria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D91BC3C.4030106@waagmeester.co.za>
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 13:02 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> At the moment I have a running install of kvm.
> I do all the virtual networking manually with help of tap adaptors and
> bridges.
> And I use LVM for the VMs disks.
>
> It is working very well, but to add a VM or to migrate it to another
> host is laborious.
>
> Now I have started playing with libvirt, and I would like to know if
> anyone else here uses the combination of kvm and libvirt?
>
> What is the most dynamic way of automatically setting up virtual
> networks per VM? Should I use qemu-ifup?
>
>
> I do not use routed or NATted virtual nets. only bridging.
The best way i to manually set up the bridge device via normal Gentoo
means, and create a virtual nic with the host device being that bridge
device. libvirt should take care of the rest.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-29 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-29 11:02 [gentoo-user] kvm and libvirt Coert Waagmeester
2011-03-29 16:06 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2011-03-30 15:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Sebrecht
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