[CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please

Christopher G. Stach II cgs at ldsys.net
Fri Nov 28 18:32:40 UTC 2008


Brett Worth wrote:
> Jason Taylor wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone suggest what the next course of action would be? The server has a
>> single physical NIC and 1 IP. Will I need to request an additional IP
>> address to use with the new guest I create?
> 
> Jason,
> 
> AFAIK you will need another IP address for the VM.  This can be done either via DHCP or
> hard wired in the configuration file.

Domain 0 can NAT for guest domains.

> With some scripting you could create another
> bridge device (e.g. br1) and use either Dom0 or a VM as a masquerading gateway device but
> that is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)

... or just use vif-script vif-nat in xend-config.sxp.

-- 
Christopher G. Stach II



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