On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 03:56:25PM +0100, Jamie McDonald wrote: > You are correct, it does actually appear under eth0 - the paste bin > ruined the formatting too and I wasn't diligent enough to check it.
Cool, thanks for clarifying. >> Oh. So this is running in a hosted environment? > Yes it is, it's a dedicated server running within Fasthosts datacenter > in the UK I see, ok. >> Right, your host does /not/ act as a router or gateway of any kind >> for the guest, so iptables and routing and whatnot does not factor >> into it at all. > Thankyou for clarifying this, various sources on the internet seem to > have conflicting information. Yeah, there seems to be much confusion in this matter. I started writing an article on the subject, but never finished it. It's on an old laptop, I'll dig it out and post it shortly. It explains all this stuff. > As it turns out Soren, you were correct. I contacted Fasthost's > support and they've added the new MAC address of the VM to the switch > for me. Ok, cool. In another hosting centre I had to actually make my host act as a router, so that's possible as well. > They even came and checked out this mailing list and mentioned you by > name in the support ticket to confirm that your thinking was > corrected. I can now ping the VM from an external location. You can tell them I said "hi" :) > Hopefully this thread will help someone else who tries to run virtual > machines on Fasthost infrastructure, at least now I know KVM / > Bridging inside out! =) No problem :) -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com/
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