Hello CentOS gurus, and a belated Happy New Year (or an early Happy Chinese New Year). I'm in the process of building a CentOS-6 KVM host machine whose only function will be to run four independent 'm0n0wall' firewall guest instances. I have a couple of quad-port Intel NICs to provide four WAN-side and four LAN-side ports, which will not be shared with any other guests. Remote access to the host CentOS is via a separate on-board NIC, so the Intel ports are free to assign. I've Googled until I'm blue in the face, but haven't found a clear explanation of how I can assign each ethX device directly to the guest OS rather than going thru the usual bridge configuration. I need to allow the m0n0wall OS to assign the LAN and WAN IP addresses, if that's possible without using a bridge. Using the Virtual Machine Manager GUI to create the VM guests (which boot up and run nicely), the drop-down list shows all of the ethX devices greyed out. Do I need to somehow start the NICs without assigning IP addresses, so that they show up in 'ifconfig'? Can anyone provide a clear, easy-to-understand procedure for doing this? If necessary, I don't mind using the command-line to create the VMs but the docs aren’t totally clear (to me, at least) regarding NIC assignment. Thanking you in advance for your suggestions, Chuck