On 17:37:11 Nov 06, Lord Sporkton wrote: > I am running Qemu with 2 virtual machines. I have put the tap devices > into a bridge with a trunk interface, the trunk acts as a gateway, > allowing a virtual network inside the host server which can nat to > public IPs and be firewalled. For some reason the 2 vmhosts cannot > communicate. they will arp each other up but not actually ping each > other. THey are windows hosts. I have a site to site vpn back to my > house which i can ping both vm hosts successfully from my house > computer through the vpn. i can ping the trunk interface from the > hosts as well. just not vmhost to vmhost. > > Any thoughts on why they can not ping each other? >
I think qemu has two modes for networking and only TCP proxying works. Not sure about UDP. But ping does not work. If you configure qemu to do 'real' networking then I believe ping will work. People more knowledgeable than me should comment any further. Thanks. -Girish
