From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4bT5-0005hZ-21 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:08:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 340CA1C0EC; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA781C111 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD96F20BA2 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:06:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:06:48 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=kHjAgiGwVUCOQrRGnrctjWecIu0=; b=ox0tYulFHeMa2zo68P612OYZKnvTyVqHFiISNFj51Cuj9FSDIau0vlzsqfeZtVy21EtnCpqU0m1nbXxg9zCPalvusjEm6VLKU+G5KQMEvRhs9ceneDaiiamMhWXc9zRM44eIEr+nXnNNO6rF9GgFBLf1dWMhIZ/7mfycpwyCxOM= X-Sasl-enc: 7Bu6Pz3F+HX8TNHP3TIHp7+pCVC/6p0Zus8HJfSSqoqv 1301414808 Received: from [192.168.0.88] (65.23.112.45.nw.nuvox.net [65.23.112.45]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7A79E443EDF for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:06:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kvm and libvirt From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4D91BC3C.4030106@waagmeester.co.za> References: <4D91BC3C.4030106@waagmeester.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:06:47 -0400 Message-ID: <1301414807.161471.1.camel@victoria> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 362afb49f10f0f0ec45f1b003c2be871 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.