On Friday, January 07, 2011 09:37:15 pm Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Neither VMWare, Xen, nor VirtualBox require the "bridged" network > ports, so it was a major configuration failing in KVM. Very minor nit: VMware does the bridging in the background for ESX (vSwitches are bridges). ESX >4.0 can have a Cisco virtual Nexus 1000 instead of the default bridging.... which is cool. But it's still bridging, just something that the VI client helps you with. Likewise, the default VMware Server/Workstation/Player setup is with bridged networking; VMware Fusion on Mac OS X likewise. But, as you noted, you currently seem to have to do this manually with KVM/QEMU.