Maybe my google-fu is failing me, but I have spent the past couple hours looking at how to add a vnet? Device to my KVM host running CentOS 6, and for the life of me I can't get this going.
From all my research if I want to add a device I should just do 'brctl addif
br1 vnet14' if I want to add a vnet14 to bridge br1. When I do this, I get:
# brctl addif br0 vnet14
interface vnet14 does not exist!
If I run a 'brctl show' I get the following:
# brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
br0 8000.00237dd22a4c no eth0
vnet0
vnet10
vnet11
vnet13
vnet2
vnet3
vnet4
vnet6
vnet8
br1 8000.00237dd22a50 no eth1
vnet1
vnet12
vnet5
vnet7
vnet9
Needless to say the existing vnet?? Devices are in use on guest VM's currently.
When I create a new VM using virt-install, I usually add the following to my command line:
--network=bridge:br0 --network=bridge:br1
I messed up building a new VM, and only added the br0 interface to the VM, but need the br1 interface as well. So my question is, or a pointer to how I can add that br1 interface to my existing VM, and create the needed vnet14 interface for it to attach to?
If anyone can explain how to do this, or give me a good pointer on where the info is on how to do this, it would sure be a huge help..
Thanks.
---
Howard Leadmon
I would stop the VM, edit its definition file (that's an XML file) and then start it up. But be careful: After you edit the XML file, you need to execute a command so KVM re-reads that file. I forgot that command, but you can look it up on Google. On Dec 9, 2015 7:52 AM, "Howard Leadmon" howard@leadmon.net wrote:
Maybe my google-fu is failing me, but I have spent the past couple hours looking at how to add a vnet? Device to my KVM host running CentOS 6, and for the life of me I can’t get this going.
From all my research if I want to add a device I should just do ‘brctl addif br1 vnet14’ if I want to add a vnet14 to bridge br1. When I do this, I get:
# brctl addif br0 vnet14
interface vnet14 does not exist!
If I run a ‘brctl show’ I get the following:
# brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
br0 8000.00237dd22a4c no eth0
vnet0 vnet10 vnet11 vnet13 vnet2 vnet3 vnet4 vnet6 vnet8br1 8000.00237dd22a50 no eth1
vnet1 vnet12 vnet5 vnet7 vnet9Needless to say the existing vnet?? Devices are in use on guest VM’s currently.
When I create a new VM using virt-install, I usually add the following to my command line:
--network=bridge:br0 --network=bridge:br1
I messed up building a new VM, and only added the br0 interface to the VM, but need the br1 interface as well. So my question is, or a pointer to how I can add that br1 interface to my existing VM, and create the needed vnet14 interface for it to attach to?
If anyone can explain how to do this, or give me a good pointer on where the info is on how to do this, it would sure be a huge help..
Thanks…
Howard Leadmon
CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Tried that as well, but this has to be something that gets set at the OS level and loaded, as if you look at dmesg output, you can see all the vnet?? nodes as the OS comes online. So the question is, what is virt-install doing that creates the needed vnet interface that is part of the bridge. I really had to kill and reload the VM just to load a second interface..
---
Howard Leadmon
From: centos-virt-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Zoltan Frombach Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 2:42 AM To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device?
I would stop the VM, edit its definition file (that's an XML file) and then start it up. But be careful: After you edit the XML file, you need to execute a command so KVM re-reads that file. I forgot that command, but you can look it up on Google.
On Dec 9, 2015 7:52 AM, "Howard Leadmon" <howard@leadmon.net mailto:howard@leadmon.net > wrote:
Maybe my google-fu is failing me, but I have spent the past couple hours looking at how to add a vnet? Device to my KVM host running CentOS 6, and for the life of me I can’t get this going.
From all my research if I want to add a device I should just do ‘brctl addif br1 vnet14’ if I want to add a vnet14 to bridge br1. When I do this, I get:
# brctl addif br0 vnet14
interface vnet14 does not exist!
If I run a ‘brctl show’ I get the following:
# brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
br0 8000.00237dd22a4c no eth0
vnet0
vnet10
vnet11
vnet13
vnet2
vnet3
vnet4
vnet6
vnet8
br1 8000.00237dd22a50 no eth1
vnet1
vnet12
vnet5
vnet7
vnet9
Needless to say the existing vnet?? Devices are in use on guest VM’s currently.
When I create a new VM using virt-install, I usually add the following to my command line:
--network=bridge:br0 --network=bridge:br1
I messed up building a new VM, and only added the br0 interface to the VM, but need the br1 interface as well. So my question is, or a pointer to how I can add that br1 interface to my existing VM, and create the needed vnet14 interface for it to attach to?
If anyone can explain how to do this, or give me a good pointer on where the info is on how to do this, it would sure be a huge help..
Thanks…
---
Howard Leadmon
_______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org mailto:CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
You most definitely do not need to destroy and re-create a VM just to add a 2nd network interface.
I don't think those vnet interfaces got created by the host OS. I believe those are created by KVM (or libvirt) when you start a VM. I could be wrong though. But I just checked on my CentOS 6 KVM host machine and I see as many vnet interfaces as many VMs are currently running (or if one VM has two virtual network cards then of course that VM results two vnet interfaces shown on the host). Here the relevant part from one such VM's XML file (those XML files are under the /etc/libvirt/qemu directory on my CentOS host ) :
<interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:16:36:e2:20:ea'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:16:36:e2:20:eb'/> <source bridge='br600'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </interface>
As you can see, there are two interfaces defined in this VM's XML file. One is connected to the host's br0 interface and the 2nd is connected to the host's br600 interface. You must make sure that all your mac addesses are unique on your network though!!
After editing a VM's XML file with your favorite editor, you need to execute this command: virsh define /etc/libvirt/qemu//your-vm-name/.xml or just simply use this editor: virsh edit /your-vm-name/ (but I hate vi, so I use my favorite editor and when I finished editing I just run virsh define.)
I edited VM's XML files many times and I can add/remove virtual network cards without problems.
Zoltan
On 12/9/2015 9:55 AM, Howard Leadmon wrote:
Tried that as well, but this has to be something that gets set at the OS level and loaded, as if you look at dmesg output, you can see all the vnet?? nodes as the OS comes online. So the question is, what is virt-install doing that creates the needed vnet interface that is part of the bridge. I really had to kill and reload the VM just to load a second interface..
Howard Leadmon
*From:*centos-virt-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org] *On Behalf Of *Zoltan Frombach *Sent:* Wednesday, December 9, 2015 2:42 AM *To:* Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@centos.org *Subject:* Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device?
I would stop the VM, edit its definition file (that's an XML file) and then start it up. But be careful: After you edit the XML file, you need to execute a command so KVM re-reads that file. I forgot that command, but you can look it up on Google.
On Dec 9, 2015 7:52 AM, "Howard Leadmon" <howard@leadmon.net mailto:howard@leadmon.net> wrote:
Maybe my google-fu is failing me, but I have spent the past couple hours looking at how to add a vnet? Device to my KVM host running CentOS 6, and for the life of me I can’t get this going. From all my research if I want to add a device I should just do ‘brctl addif br1 vnet14’ if I want to add a vnet14 to bridge br1. When I do this, I get: # brctl addif br0 vnet14 interface vnet14 does not exist! If I run a ‘brctl show’ I get the following: # brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 8000.00237dd22a4c no eth0 vnet0 vnet10 vnet11 vnet13 vnet2 vnet3 vnet4 vnet6 vnet8 br1 8000.00237dd22a50 no eth1 vnet1 vnet12 vnet5 vnet7 vnet9 Needless to say the existing vnet?? Devices are in use on guest VM’s currently. When I create a new VM using virt-install, I usually add the following to my command line: --network=bridge:br0 --network=bridge:br1 I messed up building a new VM, and only added the br0 interface to the VM, but need the br1 interface as well. So my question is, or a pointer to how I can add that br1 interface to my existing VM, and create the needed vnet14 interface for it to attach to? If anyone can explain how to do this, or give me a good pointer on where the info is on how to do this, it would sure be a huge help.. Thanks… --- Howard Leadmon _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org <mailto:CentOS-virt@centos.org> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
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How do you decide what MAC address to use for that VM interface? As I just tried to change the MAC to some other value close, like I made '52:54:00:34:e1:21' into say '52:54:00:34:e1:32', and when I try and load it in, I get the following:
error: XML error: Attempted double use of PCI Address '0:0:4.0'
Here is one of my network entries:
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='52:54:00:34:e1:21'/>
<source bridge='br1'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
</interface>
---
Howard
From: centos-virt-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Zoltan Frombach Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 4:24 AM To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device?
You most definitely do not need to destroy and re-create a VM just to add a 2nd network interface.
I don't think those vnet interfaces got created by the host OS. I believe those are created by KVM (or libvirt) when you start a VM. I could be wrong though. But I just checked on my CentOS 6 KVM host machine and I see as many vnet interfaces as many VMs are currently running (or if one VM has two virtual network cards then of course that VM results two vnet interfaces shown on the host). Here the relevant part from one such VM's XML file (those XML files are under the /etc/libvirt/qemu directory on my CentOS host ) :
<interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:16:36:e2:20:ea'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:16:36:e2:20:eb'/> <source bridge='br600'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </interface>
As you can see, there are two interfaces defined in this VM's XML file. One is connected to the host's br0 interface and the 2nd is connected to the host's br600 interface. You must make sure that all your mac addesses are unique on your network though!!
After editing a VM's XML file with your favorite editor, you need to execute this command: virsh define /etc/libvirt/qemu/your-vm-name.xml or just simply use this editor: virsh edit your-vm-name (but I hate vi, so I use my favorite editor and when I finished editing I just run virsh define.)
I edited VM's XML files many times and I can add/remove virtual network cards without problems.
Zoltan
On 12/9/2015 9:55 AM, Howard Leadmon wrote:
Tried that as well, but this has to be something that gets set at the OS level and loaded, as if you look at dmesg output, you can see all the vnet?? nodes as the OS comes online. So the question is, what is virt-install doing that creates the needed vnet interface that is part of the bridge. I really had to kill and reload the VM just to load a second interface..
---
Howard Leadmon
From: centos-virt-bounces@centos.org mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Zoltan Frombach Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 2:42 AM To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS mailto:centos-virt@centos.org centos-virt@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device?
I would stop the VM, edit its definition file (that's an XML file) and then start it up. But be careful: After you edit the XML file, you need to execute a command so KVM re-reads that file. I forgot that command, but you can look it up on Google.
On Dec 9, 2015 7:52 AM, "Howard Leadmon" <howard@leadmon.net mailto:howard@leadmon.net > wrote:
Maybe my google-fu is failing me, but I have spent the past couple hours looking at how to add a vnet? Device to my KVM host running CentOS 6, and for the life of me I can't get this going.
From all my research if I want to add a device I should just do 'brctl addif
br1 vnet14' if I want to add a vnet14 to bridge br1. When I do this, I get:
# brctl addif br0 vnet14
interface vnet14 does not exist!
If I run a 'brctl show' I get the following:
# brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
br0 8000.00237dd22a4c no eth0
vnet0
vnet10
vnet11
vnet13
vnet2
vnet3
vnet4
vnet6
vnet8
br1 8000.00237dd22a50 no eth1
vnet1
vnet12
vnet5
vnet7
vnet9
Needless to say the existing vnet?? Devices are in use on guest VM's currently.
When I create a new VM using virt-install, I usually add the following to my command line:
--network=bridge:br0 --network=bridge:br1
I messed up building a new VM, and only added the br0 interface to the VM, but need the br1 interface as well. So my question is, or a pointer to how I can add that br1 interface to my existing VM, and create the needed vnet14 interface for it to attach to?
If anyone can explain how to do this, or give me a good pointer on where the info is on how to do this, it would sure be a huge help..
Thanks.
---
Howard Leadmon
_______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org mailto:CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
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The MAC address you gave is fine. I use random MAC addresses just like you did.
Your PCI bus address also has to be unique within a given VM. I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that. Look at my configuration example I sent. These are emulated (virtual) network cards attached to the emulated (virtual) PCI bus of the virtual machine. Two network cards cannot have the same MAC address and they cannot be on the same PCI bus address either. Your VM's are emulated physical machines with their own BIOS, etc.
Zoltan
On 12/9/2015 10:58 AM, Howard Leadmon wrote:
How do you decide what MAC address to use for that VM interface? As I just tried to change the MAC to some other value close, like I made '52:54:00:34:e1:21' into say '52:54:00:34:e1:32', and when I try and load it in, I get the following:
error: XML error: Attempted double use of PCI Address '0:0:4.0'
Here is one of my network entries:
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='52:54:00:34:e1:21'/>
<source bridge='br1'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
</interface>
Howard
*From:*centos-virt-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org] *On Behalf Of *Zoltan Frombach *Sent:* Wednesday, December 9, 2015 4:24 AM *To:* Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@centos.org *Subject:* Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device?
You most definitely do not need to destroy and re-create a VM just to add a 2nd network interface.
I don't think those vnet interfaces got created by the host OS. I believe those are created by KVM (or libvirt) when you start a VM. I could be wrong though. But I just checked on my CentOS 6 KVM host machine and I see as many vnet interfaces as many VMs are currently running (or if one VM has two virtual network cards then of course that VM results two vnet interfaces shown on the host). Here the relevant part from one such VM's XML file (those XML files are under the /etc/libvirt/qemu directory on my CentOS host ) :
<interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:16:36:e2:20:ea'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03'function='0x0'/> </interface> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:16:36:e2:20:eb'/> <source bridge='br600'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </interface>
As you can see, there are two interfaces defined in this VM's XML file. One is connected to the host's br0 interface and the 2nd is connected to the host's br600 interface. You must make sure that all your mac addesses are unique on your network though!!
After editing a VM's XML file with your favorite editor, you need to execute this command: virsh define /etc/libvirt/qemu//your-vm-name/.xml or just simply use this editor: virsh edit /your-vm-name/ (but I hate vi, so I use my favorite editor and when I finished editing I just run virsh define.)
I edited VM's XML files many times and I can add/remove virtual network cards without problems.
Zoltan
On 12/9/2015 9:55 AM, Howard Leadmon wrote:
Tried that as well, but this has to be something that gets set at the OS level and loaded, as if you look at dmesg output, you can see all the vnet?? nodes as the OS comes online. So the question is, what is virt-install doing that creates the needed vnet interface that is part of the bridge. I really had to kill and reload the VM just to load a second interface.. --- Howard Leadmon *From:*centos-virt-bounces@centos.org <mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org> [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org] *On Behalf Of *Zoltan Frombach *Sent:* Wednesday, December 9, 2015 2:42 AM *To:* Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS <centos-virt@centos.org> <mailto:centos-virt@centos.org> *Subject:* Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device? I would stop the VM, edit its definition file (that's an XML file) and then start it up. But be careful: After you edit the XML file, you need to execute a command so KVM re-reads that file. I forgot that command, but you can look it up on Google. On Dec 9, 2015 7:52 AM, "Howard Leadmon" <howard@leadmon.net <mailto:howard@leadmon.net>> wrote: Maybe my google-fu is failing me, but I have spent the past couple hours looking at how to add a vnet? Device to my KVM host running CentOS 6, and for the life of me I can’t get this going. From all my research if I want to add a device I should just do ‘brctl addif br1 vnet14’ if I want to add a vnet14 to bridge br1. When I do this, I get: # brctl addif br0 vnet14 interface vnet14 does not exist! If I run a ‘brctl show’ I get the following: # brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 8000.00237dd22a4c no eth0 vnet0 vnet10 vnet11 vnet13 vnet2 vnet3 vnet4 vnet6 vnet8 br1 8000.00237dd22a50 no eth1 vnet1 vnet12 vnet5 vnet7 vnet9 Needless to say the existing vnet?? Devices are in use on guest VM’s currently. When I create a new VM using virt-install, I usually add the following to my command line: --network=bridge:br0 --network=bridge:br1 I messed up building a new VM, and only added the br0 interface to the VM, but need the br1 interface as well. So my question is, or a pointer to how I can add that br1 interface to my existing VM, and create the needed vnet14 interface for it to attach to? If anyone can explain how to do this, or give me a good pointer on where the info is on how to do this, it would sure be a huge help.. Thanks… --- Howard Leadmon _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org <mailto:CentOS-virt@centos.org> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org <mailto:CentOS-virt@centos.org> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
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BTW, adding a 2nd virtual nic to a guest can also be done with command line tools (I just googled this for you) : https://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/virt/add-network-card-in-guest.txt ( It came up as 1st result when I searched for: virsh add network interface to existing guest )
But if you look at the bottom of this guide, they also mention that if something goes wrong, they resort to using virsh edit just like I suggested to you. See, I prefer to edit a configuration file rather then issuing long and complicated commands on the CLI. However, being able to add a 2nd nic to a live guest is nice though and that could only be achieved with the CLI command. As you can see, you can even add nic's to a VM without having to reboot it.
Zoltan
On 12/9/2015 10:58 AM, Howard Leadmon wrote:
How do you decide what MAC address to use for that VM interface? As I just tried to change the MAC to some other value close, like I made '52:54:00:34:e1:21' into say '52:54:00:34:e1:32', and when I try and load it in, I get the following:
error: XML error: Attempted double use of PCI Address '0:0:4.0'
Here is one of my network entries:
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='52:54:00:34:e1:21'/>
<source bridge='br1'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
</interface>
Howard
*From:*centos-virt-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org] *On Behalf Of *Zoltan Frombach *Sent:* Wednesday, December 9, 2015 4:24 AM *To:* Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@centos.org *Subject:* Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device?
You most definitely do not need to destroy and re-create a VM just to add a 2nd network interface.
I don't think those vnet interfaces got created by the host OS. I believe those are created by KVM (or libvirt) when you start a VM. I could be wrong though. But I just checked on my CentOS 6 KVM host machine and I see as many vnet interfaces as many VMs are currently running (or if one VM has two virtual network cards then of course that VM results two vnet interfaces shown on the host). Here the relevant part from one such VM's XML file (those XML files are under the /etc/libvirt/qemu directory on my CentOS host ) :
<interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:16:36:e2:20:ea'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03'function='0x0'/> </interface> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:16:36:e2:20:eb'/> <source bridge='br600'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </interface>
As you can see, there are two interfaces defined in this VM's XML file. One is connected to the host's br0 interface and the 2nd is connected to the host's br600 interface. You must make sure that all your mac addesses are unique on your network though!!
After editing a VM's XML file with your favorite editor, you need to execute this command: virsh define /etc/libvirt/qemu//your-vm-name/.xml or just simply use this editor: virsh edit /your-vm-name/ (but I hate vi, so I use my favorite editor and when I finished editing I just run virsh define.)
I edited VM's XML files many times and I can add/remove virtual network cards without problems.
Zoltan
On 12/9/2015 9:55 AM, Howard Leadmon wrote:
Tried that as well, but this has to be something that gets set at the OS level and loaded, as if you look at dmesg output, you can see all the vnet?? nodes as the OS comes online. So the question is, what is virt-install doing that creates the needed vnet interface that is part of the bridge. I really had to kill and reload the VM just to load a second interface.. --- Howard Leadmon *From:*centos-virt-bounces@centos.org <mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org> [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org] *On Behalf Of *Zoltan Frombach *Sent:* Wednesday, December 9, 2015 2:42 AM *To:* Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS <centos-virt@centos.org> <mailto:centos-virt@centos.org> *Subject:* Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device? I would stop the VM, edit its definition file (that's an XML file) and then start it up. But be careful: After you edit the XML file, you need to execute a command so KVM re-reads that file. I forgot that command, but you can look it up on Google. On Dec 9, 2015 7:52 AM, "Howard Leadmon" <howard@leadmon.net <mailto:howard@leadmon.net>> wrote: Maybe my google-fu is failing me, but I have spent the past couple hours looking at how to add a vnet? Device to my KVM host running CentOS 6, and for the life of me I can’t get this going. From all my research if I want to add a device I should just do ‘brctl addif br1 vnet14’ if I want to add a vnet14 to bridge br1. When I do this, I get: # brctl addif br0 vnet14 interface vnet14 does not exist! If I run a ‘brctl show’ I get the following: # brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 8000.00237dd22a4c no eth0 vnet0 vnet10 vnet11 vnet13 vnet2 vnet3 vnet4 vnet6 vnet8 br1 8000.00237dd22a50 no eth1 vnet1 vnet12 vnet5 vnet7 vnet9 Needless to say the existing vnet?? Devices are in use on guest VM’s currently. When I create a new VM using virt-install, I usually add the following to my command line: --network=bridge:br0 --network=bridge:br1 I messed up building a new VM, and only added the br0 interface to the VM, but need the br1 interface as well. So my question is, or a pointer to how I can add that br1 interface to my existing VM, and create the needed vnet14 interface for it to attach to? If anyone can explain how to do this, or give me a good pointer on where the info is on how to do this, it would sure be a huge help.. Thanks… --- Howard Leadmon _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org <mailto:CentOS-virt@centos.org> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org <mailto:CentOS-virt@centos.org> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
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That is exactly what I was looking for, and worked perfectly, and will now be added to my notes on working with VM's. I figured it was a matter of me just not using the right search words in google, but damn if I could find that page, and I tried.
Using the info on that page, I added an interface, and it's live and running..
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Howard Leadmon
From: centos-virt-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Zoltan Frombach Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 5:38 AM To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS centos-virt@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device?
BTW, adding a 2nd virtual nic to a guest can also be done with command line tools (I just googled this for you) : https://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/virt/add-network-card-in-guest.txt ( It came up as 1st result when I searched for: virsh add network interface to existing guest )
But if you look at the bottom of this guide, they also mention that if something goes wrong, they resort to using virsh edit just like I suggested to you. See, I prefer to edit a configuration file rather then issuing long and complicated commands on the CLI. However, being able to add a 2nd nic to a live guest is nice though and that could only be achieved with the CLI command. As you can see, you can even add nic's to a VM without having to reboot it.
Zoltan
On 12/9/2015 10:58 AM, Howard Leadmon wrote:
How do you decide what MAC address to use for that VM interface? As I just tried to change the MAC to some other value close, like I made '52:54:00:34:e1:21' into say '52:54:00:34:e1:32', and when I try and load it in, I get the following:
error: XML error: Attempted double use of PCI Address '0:0:4.0'
Here is one of my network entries:
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='52:54:00:34:e1:21'/>
<source bridge='br1'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
</interface>
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Howard
From: centos-virt-bounces@centos.org mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Zoltan Frombach Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 4:24 AM To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS mailto:centos-virt@centos.org centos-virt@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device?
You most definitely do not need to destroy and re-create a VM just to add a 2nd network interface.
I don't think those vnet interfaces got created by the host OS. I believe those are created by KVM (or libvirt) when you start a VM. I could be wrong though. But I just checked on my CentOS 6 KVM host machine and I see as many vnet interfaces as many VMs are currently running (or if one VM has two virtual network cards then of course that VM results two vnet interfaces shown on the host). Here the relevant part from one such VM's XML file (those XML files are under the /etc/libvirt/qemu directory on my CentOS host ) :
<interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:16:36:e2:20:ea'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='00:16:36:e2:20:eb'/> <source bridge='br600'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </interface>
As you can see, there are two interfaces defined in this VM's XML file. One is connected to the host's br0 interface and the 2nd is connected to the host's br600 interface. You must make sure that all your mac addesses are unique on your network though!!
After editing a VM's XML file with your favorite editor, you need to execute this command: virsh define /etc/libvirt/qemu/your-vm-name.xml or just simply use this editor: virsh edit your-vm-name (but I hate vi, so I use my favorite editor and when I finished editing I just run virsh define.)
I edited VM's XML files many times and I can add/remove virtual network cards without problems.
Zoltan
On 12/9/2015 9:55 AM, Howard Leadmon wrote:
Tried that as well, but this has to be something that gets set at the OS level and loaded, as if you look at dmesg output, you can see all the vnet?? nodes as the OS comes online. So the question is, what is virt-install doing that creates the needed vnet interface that is part of the bridge. I really had to kill and reload the VM just to load a second interface..
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Howard Leadmon
From: centos-virt-bounces@centos.org mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Zoltan Frombach Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 2:42 AM To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS mailto:centos-virt@centos.org centos-virt@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] How to manually add a new interface to a bridge device?
I would stop the VM, edit its definition file (that's an XML file) and then start it up. But be careful: After you edit the XML file, you need to execute a command so KVM re-reads that file. I forgot that command, but you can look it up on Google.
On Dec 9, 2015 7:52 AM, "Howard Leadmon" <howard@leadmon.net mailto:howard@leadmon.net > wrote:
Maybe my google-fu is failing me, but I have spent the past couple hours looking at how to add a vnet? Device to my KVM host running CentOS 6, and for the life of me I can't get this going.
From all my research if I want to add a device I should just do 'brctl addif
br1 vnet14' if I want to add a vnet14 to bridge br1. When I do this, I get:
# brctl addif br0 vnet14
interface vnet14 does not exist!
If I run a 'brctl show' I get the following:
# brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
br0 8000.00237dd22a4c no eth0
vnet0
vnet10
vnet11
vnet13
vnet2
vnet3
vnet4
vnet6
vnet8
br1 8000.00237dd22a50 no eth1
vnet1
vnet12
vnet5
vnet7
vnet9
Needless to say the existing vnet?? Devices are in use on guest VM's currently.
When I create a new VM using virt-install, I usually add the following to my command line:
--network=bridge:br0 --network=bridge:br1
I messed up building a new VM, and only added the br0 interface to the VM, but need the br1 interface as well. So my question is, or a pointer to how I can add that br1 interface to my existing VM, and create the needed vnet14 interface for it to attach to?
If anyone can explain how to do this, or give me a good pointer on where the info is on how to do this, it would sure be a huge help..
Thanks.
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