[CentOS-virt] Is kvm ready for prime time?

Wed Jun 9 16:47:59 UTC 2010
Lars Hecking <lhecking at users.sourceforge.net>

> Try setting up vnc and use a vnc viewer to administer the guest.
 
 That worked. Thanks!

 Unfortunately, it seems the interface bridging doesn't seem to work, the vm
 says "no network link detected on eth0". This is the ifconfig on the host:

br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:5E:6B:B9:BE  
          inet addr:10.2.3.4  Bcast:10.2.3.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::214:5eff:fe6b:b9be/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:95936 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:19855 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:50289551 (47.9 MiB)  TX bytes:32322314 (30.8 MiB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:5E:6B:B9:BE  
          inet6 addr: fe80::214:5eff:fe6b:b9be/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:104793 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:38325 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:52621784 (50.1 MiB)  TX bytes:33702340 (32.1 MiB)
          Interrupt:169 Memory:d0200000-d0210000 

> IIRC you're connected to the serial console of the guest, so if your 
> software isn't setup to use the serial port nothing will happen (or 
> output only garbage).

 I see. Will look at this at a later point.



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