Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Charles Duffy
Michael Jinks wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Chris Webb wrote: You want -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap11 -net nic,vlan=1 -net tap,vlan=1,ifname=tap12 Progress! This works, I can bring up the guest and watch it boot, but both of its NICs came up bound to the first bridg

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Webb
Michael Jinks writes: > How do I make a guest use a specific tap? Quoting > from my initial post, my -net options are: > > -net nic -net tap,name=tap11 -net nic -net tap,name=tap12 You want -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap11 -net nic,vlan=1 -net tap,vlan=1,ifname=tap12 to get t

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:12:19AM +0200, Andreas Plesner Jacobsen wrote: > >> > >> I tried "fd=" instead of "name=", but that looks for a file descriptor > >> instead of a network interface name, and I didn't even know that Linux > >> had file descriptors for network interfaces let alone how to ma

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Jinks
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Andreas Plesner Jacobsen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 06:22:56PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: >> I suppose that's a good sign, but it still leaves me wondering how to >> control which tap connects to which bridge, if I can't attach a guest >> to an existing tap

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Jinks
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Chris Webb wrote: > You want > >  -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap11 -net nic,vlan=1 -net > tap,vlan=1,ifname=tap12 Progress! This works, I can bring up the guest and watch it boot, but both of its NICs came up bound to the first bridge on the system.

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 06:22:56PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: > >>   # kvm -m 512M -net nic -net tap,name=tap11 -net nic -net > >> tap,name=tap12 -hda /vmstore/wee -vnc :11 -cdrom > >> /path/to/my/Windows.iso -boot d > > > > The parameter is "ifname", not "name". > > In that case, what does the "

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Stephane Bakhos
device tap11 is already a member of a bridge; can't enslave it to bridge br0. /etc/kvm/kvm-ifup: could not launch network script Could not initialize device 'tap' That's because your kvm-ifup scripts tries to connect the tap to the bridge and it's already there. You should either remove it f

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Jinks
>>   # kvm -m 512M -net nic -net tap,name=tap11 -net nic -net >> tap,name=tap12 -hda /vmstore/wee -vnc :11 -cdrom >> /path/to/my/Windows.iso -boot d > > The parameter is "ifname", not "name". In that case, what does the "name" parameter mean? Quoting from the manpage on my system: -net ta

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:05:48PM -0400, Stephane Bakhos wrote: >> >> I tried "fd=" instead of "name=", but that looks for a file descriptor >> instead of a network interface name, and I didn't even know that Linux >> had file descriptors for network interfaces let alone how to map them >> to a ta

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Jinks
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Andreas Plesner Jacobsen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:05:48PM -0400, Stephane Bakhos wrote: >>> >> You need to add a vlan option to one of them, for example vlan=2 >> Otherwise kvm will bridge the interfaces together, and it's going to >> create a packet stor

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 05:54:14PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: > > Now I want to bring up a VM with two NICs, one attached to tap12 > (bridge 0), the other on tap11 (bridge 1), but I think I've > misunderstood the versious "-net" options as described in the kvm man > page. It *seems* to say that

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Stephane Bakhos
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 8000.00144fa1f17a no eth0 tap0 tap1

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Stephane Bakhos
You need to add a vlan option to one of them, for example vlan=2 Otherwise kvm will bridge the interfaces together, and it's going to create a packet storm. I wondered about that -- but what's the relationship of a KVM vlan to my existing bridge interfaces, and how can I control which one gets m

Re: Trouble understanding net config options

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Jinks
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Stephane Bakhos wrote: > You need to add a vlan option to one of them, for example vlan=2 > Otherwise kvm will bridge the interfaces together, and it's going to create > a packet storm. I wondered about that -- but what's the relationship of a KVM vlan to my exist