On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 10:53 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > bridge allow your vm to connect to the internet directly. the vm will > connect to the dhcp server as your host machine do. > > vde creates a vlan on your host, and your vms connect to that vlan. > and your host machine will act like a gateway to your vm. > > people say vde is easier to config if you have many vms. i actually > never tried bridge. maybe i should try it some time.
Yeah, libvirt does the same thing. It creates a virtual tap device which you can put your vms on, then it runs dnsmasq on that interface for dhcp/dns, and acts as a NAT/gateway for the vms. It's pretty much the same thing AFAICT. I'm sure there are differences but they sound pretty similar to me.
