Lesson learned.  I think I had the same IP address assigned to my VM router as I did the Host.

Side question: where are the virtual networks stored when you create them w/VM Manager?

-----Original Message-----
From: Spanky Horawitz <shorawitz@gmail.com>
Reply-to: shorawitz@gmail.com
To: libvirt-users@redhat.com
Subject: Isolated networks && test lab
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:17:56 -0700

I'm trying to migrate my VirtualBox test lab to KVM.  In my VB configuration, I have several VM routers with 4 interfaces each.  Each router has a bridged interface which connects them all together and to the outside world.  I have servers/clients dispersed on each of the other private (Isolated) segments that use the routers as default gateways.

In trying to make this work, I used Virtual Machine Manager to define 3x Virtual Networks (Isolated networks) and created a VM router which has 3 interfaces (192.168.x.1) on each Isolated network and a 4th interface using the br0 interface to get to the outside world.  The router is able to connect to the outside world.

Using Virtual Machine Manager, I also created "client" VM and connected it's single interface to one of the Isolated networks.  While testing connectivity of the "client" VM to the router, it seems to go straight to the Host (tested using 'ssh 192.168.x.1'.)  I'm trying to isolate the networks from the Host and have the router receive packets for the 192.168.x.1 address on the individual Isolated network segments.

Host:
br0 (em1): 192.168.1.16
vibr0 (default): 192.168.122.1
virbr1: 192.168.2.1
virbr2: 192.168.3.1
virbr3: 192.168.4.1

VM router:
eth0: 192.168.1.10
eth1: 192.168.2.1
eth2: 192.168.3.1
eth3: 192.168.4.1

VM client:
eth0: 192.168.3.101


Is there some trick to isolate the Host from the VM's?  Is there a comprehensive guide that explains how the networks should be setup (with/without Virtual Machine Manager)?  I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty on the console if needed, but GUI's are easier to navigate when you're learning a new technology.  I switched to using RemoteBox for managing my VB vm's as it made things a lot easier to deal with than VBoxManage.

Thanks for your help!