On Tue, November 10, 2009 05:34, Kenni Lund wrote: > > Yep, you do want tun/tap. But if you create a regular bridge and > tells virt-manager or libvirt to use this for your virtual > machines, virt-manager/libvirt will take care of the tun/tap setup. > This is what I have done. One of difficulties I still have is discovering where I set the IP addresses for the virtual machines. It seems that I get some variant of 192.168.122.x where I need an actual routable address in the 216.185.71.0/24 space. ifcfg-br0 # kvm virtual host bridged network connection DEVICE=br0 TYPE=Bridge BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=216.185.71.255 #HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx IPADDR=216.185.71.22 #IPV6INIT=yes #IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=216.185.71.0 ONBOOT=yes ifcfg-eth0 # Bridged ethernet for KVM virtual hosts # Intel Corporation 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection DEVICE=eth0 #BOOTPROTO=static #BROADCAST=216.185.71.255 HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx #IPADDR=216.185.71.22 #IPV6INIT=yes #IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes #NETMASK=255.255.255.0 #NETWORK=216.185.71.0 ONBOOT=yes BRIDGE=br0 -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3