Re: KVM Management : Public Bridge setup

[jd <jdsw2002@yahoo.com>]

Neat. 

Thanks
/Jd


--- On Mon, 8/11/08, Alberto Treviño <alberto@byu.edu> wrote:

> From: Alberto Treviño <alberto@byu.edu>
> Subject: Re: KVM Management : Public Bridge setup
> To: "jdsw2002@yahoo.com" <jdsw2002@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "KVM List" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
> Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 8:12 PM
> On Friday 08 August 2008 08:18:26 pm jd wrote:
> >   The /etc/qemu-if script seems to be taking the
> interface as a
> > parameter, is there a way to pass the bridge name to
> the script as well.
> > Thus from the command line one can pass the bridge
> that one whats to
> > attach to. (One can potentially one script for each
> bridge and pass the
> > script name to qemu... but it seems bit unnecessary.)
> 
> I name my tap devices (using ifname=...) as follows:
> 
>   tap.br0.05.1
> 
> where
>   tap  -- this is a tap device
>   br0  -- the name of the bridge
>   05   -- the ID of the VM (each of my VM's has a
> unique numeric ID)
>   1    -- The NIC # on the VM (1, 2, 3, or 4 depending on #
> of NIC's)
> 
> Then on my scripts I can extract the bridge name and use
> it.  This also has 
> the advantage of helping me know just by the name what
> bridge this devices 
> is hooked up to, what VM it belongs to, and which NIC it is
> inside the VM.
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