[CentOS] Bridging wifi with Centos6/kvm

Thu Nov 17 15:26:35 UTC 2011
Joe Tseng <joe_tseng at hotmail.com>

  1.. Is it even possible? Every example I've seen has bridged eth* rather wlan*. 
  2.. If it helps here are my scripts:

$ more /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 
ESSID="snip"
MODE=Managed
KEY_MGMT=WPA-PSK
TYPE=Wireless
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
DEFROUTE=yes
PEERDNS=yes
PEERROUTES=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
NAME=wlan0
UUID=2b508481-ec01-4311-8903-af7aaeb9879d
ONBOOT=yes
BRIDGE=br0

$ more /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0
DEVICE=br0
TYPE=Bridge
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
DELAY=0

I've never done vm bridging in kvm so if there's something obvious I'm missing I'm not seeing it.

Thx,

- Joe