2009/2/17 Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>: > suvayu ali wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Recently I started experimenting with kvm with F10 as the host, and I >> have been having some problems. >> >> I need to login to my virtual machine from the shell from the host >> itself and/or from another machine remotely over the internet. I went >> through the man pages but couldn't make anything out of it. I am a >> newbie so could someone please point me to a resource where I can read >> up more on this which is a little more understandable? >> > No. > > On the other hand I can tell you what I did, a better way to do it (which I > didn't know when I started), and it should get you started. You may have joy > from virt-manager, it's on my list of things to try when I have time to look > at better solutions to problems to problems for which I have an ugly working > solution. > > The secret is to have your NIC attached to a bridge on the host, and use > that for networking. So instead of having eth0 be your device for default > route, you have the bridge, and the physical bridge is attached to the > bridge. Now you can use either a fixed IP or a known DHCP assigned IP for > your virtual machine. > > I have: NIC(eth0)---[bridge(br0)]---default route I don't quite follow you here. > > Start the kvm machine with: "-net nic,macaddr=$MAC -net tap" to do DHCP IP > assignment, or "-net nic -net tap" to use a static IP or random IP from > DHCP. > I run my own DNS, DHCP, mail, http, so I can control everything, but you may > not wish to do so. > > The better way: I have seen posted the suggestion that you name the NIC > "peth0" and the bridge "eth0" to make the default Fedora firewall and > routing work. Haven't tried it. > > Hope this gets you started, I read the kvm list and I just beat on it until > it worked "back when" without much doc, and haven't changed anything. > When I tried "-net nic -net tap", I get this error, /etc/qemu-ifup: could not launch network script Could not initialize device 'tap' So I tried just using nic, that did boot up the system but I did not have any network connection. I tried using macaddr=<my active network>, that too ended up with no network. I don't know whether this is relevant, I have 2 network cards but none of them are in use. I have to use a USB wifi receiver to connect to the internet. (don't ask why, its because of the landlord). So the macaddr I used was for the wifi receiver (wlan0). Without either of those the machine boots up with network access and I can log into the system using the gui. I can do system updates and browse the internet, however when i try to (from the host) ping the ip I get from ifconfig on the guest, there is 100% packet loss. I hope I am not doing something stupid ... :-o -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
