Re: Trouble understanding net config options

[Andreas Plesner Jacobsen <apj@mutt.dk>]

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 the way to map a specific tap to a
> specific guest NIC is to say, "-net nic" followed by "-net
> tap,name=<name of the tap from the host OS's perspective>", and repeat
> that sequence for each nic to appear within the VM.
> 
> So, here's the full command line I tried, based on that reading:
> 
>   # 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".

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Andreas