From: Stuart Jansen <sjansen@gurulabs.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Simple way of putting a VM on a LAN
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:31:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217025085.7587.2.camel@simplicity.buscaluz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488A02DB.8020204@tmr.com>
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 12:44 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> But when the host is really on the network, it uses DHCP to set the IP,
> while in a VM it never sends any DHCP packets, the setting of the IP
> times out, and I wind up with no IP until I set it. I have checked with
> tcpdump, the DHCP requests for IP appear on the bridge, but not on the
> eth0 NIC, and so are never seen by the DHCP server.
>
> Do you see this problem, or have any information about it? Obviously
> suggestions on fixing this are needed, since the dhcp server is a
> candidate for virtualization in the future.
Just to be certain of the obvious, you added eth0 to the bridge, right?
brctl addif br0 eth0
And the tap device is active, right?
ifconfig tap0 up
Assuming it isn't something so obvious, I'm suspecting spanning tree.
brctl stp br0 off
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-25 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-27 1:54 Simple way of putting a VM on a LAN Bill Davidsen
2008-06-27 4:46 ` Mike Snitzer
2008-06-27 7:04 ` Chris Lalancette
2008-07-09 16:28 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-07-09 17:23 ` Javier Guerra
2008-07-24 4:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-07-24 14:22 ` Javier Guerra
2008-07-25 16:44 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-07-25 22:31 ` Stuart Jansen [this message]
2008-07-26 17:26 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-06-27 22:44 ` Freddie Cash
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