On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Jan Kiszka wrote:
On 2011-02-19 20:32, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
Any other suggestions to achieve this?
http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/MacVTap
Enabling host<->guest communication this way is still a bit unhandy
IMHO. You need a fairly recent iproute2 version, then set up macvtap
like this
ip link add link eth1 name macvtap0 type macvtap mode bridge
And you additionally seem to need a separate macvlan device attached to
that bridge, configured to the IP of the host.
ip link add link eth1 name macvlan0 type macvlan mode bridge
ifconfig macvlan0 ...
Not sure if this is by design or due to internals of the networking
stack, but it looks unintuitive from user perspective. Maybe Arnd can
shed a light on this.
Thnx Jan. That's exactly I'm looking for.
Is it possible to use then a legacy type network card for "old" guests?
e.g. ne2k_pci, i82551, i82557b, i82559er, rtl8139, e1000, pcnet
and also virtio, virtio-net-pci
Of course, you could also simply offload all that setup to libvirt.
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking
But that still needs a bridge on ethernet level and break up the existing
interface, right?
BTW: From: http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/MacVTap
As of QEMU 0.12:
qemu -net nic,model=virtio,addr=1a:46:0b:ca:bc:7b -net tap,fd=3 3<>/dev/tap11
Is there a newer Syntax with tap interfaces possible (QEMU GIT) without
bash redirects?
Thnx.
Ciao,
Gerhard
--
http://www.wiesinger.com/
