Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kvm and libvirt
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:08:31
Message-Id: 1301414807.161471.1.camel@victoria
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] kvm and libvirt by Coert Waagmeester
1 On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 13:02 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote:
2 > Hello all,
3 >
4 > At the moment I have a running install of kvm.
5 > I do all the virtual networking manually with help of tap adaptors and
6 > bridges.
7 > And I use LVM for the VMs disks.
8 >
9 > It is working very well, but to add a VM or to migrate it to another
10 > host is laborious.
11 >
12 > Now I have started playing with libvirt, and I would like to know if
13 > anyone else here uses the combination of kvm and libvirt?
14 >
15 > What is the most dynamic way of automatically setting up virtual
16 > networks per VM? Should I use qemu-ifup?
17 >
18 >
19 > I do not use routed or NATted virtual nets. only bridging.
20
21 The best way i to manually set up the bridge device via normal Gentoo
22 means, and create a virtual nic with the host device being that bridge
23 device. libvirt should take care of the rest.