On 6/10/2014 10:46 AM, Digimer wrote: > On 10/06/14 10:03 AM, Steve Campbell wrote: >> I had so much trouble putting Centos 6 guest VMs on a Centos 5 host that >> I finally switched to a Centos 6 host. >> >> I've not needed more that test VMs, so I've used Virtual Machine Manager >> on the old system, which worked pretty well, so I decided to create my >> first KVM guest machine. I noticed when I created it, I only had the >> options of NAT for my network interface, so I used that (obvious). >> >> Well, after starting the VM, I find I don't have connectivity with that >> interface. Reading, I find examples where I need to create bridges >> perhaps. Xen did most of this for me, so it's a little new to me. >> >> Can anyone throw me a clue, please? >> >> steve campbell > > Setting up a bridge is not that hard, and it will give your VMs direct > access to the outside world, and host <-> VM access just fine as well. > > Here is a link showing how to setup a bridge connected to a bond > device. Ignore the bond and pretend it is a straight ethX device: > > https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!Cluster_Tutorial_2#Configuring_our_Bridge.2C_Bonds_and_Interfaces > > > The host has a device named virbr0 that is installed during system installation. It also has a network device vnet0. There are no files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for these. Shouldn't I be able to use the virbr0 virtual bridge for this? I've tried setting up the VM's device with all of the options that is listed, but to no avail. Should I need to set up another bridge for this? And thanks for the link. steve