-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jim C. Brown schrieb: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 06:42:30PM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > >>On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Oliver Gerlich wrote: >> >> >>>what is the best solution to connect the vde "switch" to my real LAN so >>>that Qemu guests get IPs from my LAN-wide DHCP server? >> >>bridgeing of your ethernet interface and the TAP interface connecting to >>vde is undoubtly the best if you want to provide full access to the LAN. >> >> >>>Also I tried to set up IP forwarding between tap0 and eth0, but then the >>>Qemu guests aren't transparently on my LAN (and don't get the correct >>>config from the DHCP server). > > > The best solution is to use a vde_switch with libpcap and libnet. This allows > intercepting packets meant for the guests (via libnet) and forwarding them > thru > vde. libpcap allows for packets in vde to be passed on to the lan. This also > allows for a sort of seamless bridging between host and guest lan. > (Technically > a tap device is still required to be able to talk to the host, but my > understanding > is that libpcap handles this automatically.) Plus, the nic remains eth0. > > I am not sure how libpcap and libnet would work with DHCP or ARP, but since > they work on the ethernet level I suppose a single dhcpd server on eth0 would > work in this case, but I am not 100% sure. >
Sounds interesting! How do I set this up? Couldn't find anything on Google, and personally I have no idea how to do this :) Oliver -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC0WeTTFOM6DcNJ6cRAlH6AKCfIo99S6MMihOY5DUOpdOFxQaHdgCdG0+B 8POxg7Ufhc5QBU0Rg4WfyT8= =EC4W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
