Re: [Qemu-discuss] How to set the network card for qemu to use?

[Miroslav Rovis]

Hi aleksei!

I'll be studying your kind tip below, but I was into physical rearranging of my
NIC cards setup, and I first decided I needed to see how the default
pass-through works:

http://www.croatiafidelis.hr/foss/cap/cap-161015-qemu-devuan/

On 161014-12:11+0300, Aleksei wrote:
> This is not the right mailing list to ask about persistent NIC naming on 
> your host system.
Yes, you're right.

I'll be looking into this:
> Assuming you've solved that and trying to get a VM working with *eth1*, 
> do the following:
> 
> 1) Set up a bridge on the host (let's say it's bridge0) with eth1 as a 
> slave. bridge0 is configured to auto-get IPv4 address via DHCP. 
> Different methods are described here 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_bridge.
There are also Wiki pages more specific for Gentoo which I use:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU/Options
and sure:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Network_bridge

> 2) Include the following to your Qemu command line. You don't need to 
> manually create tap devices on the host, qemu-bridge-helper script does 
> this for you.
>      -device virtio-net,netdev=internet \
>      -netdev 
> bridge,br=bridge0,id=internet,helper=/usr/lib/qemu/qemu-bridge-helper
> 
> 3) Start VM, post results. Please try to be concise ;) and post what you 
> are trying to do and actual error messages. Also provide your Qemu version.
> 

Regads!

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Miroslav Rovis
Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr

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