Hi Everyone, I'm having trouble understanding what I need to do so my VM guests use the DHCP server on my LAN. I've read <https://wiki.libvirt.org/VirtualNetworking.html#virtual-networking>;, but I don't see the use case covered. There is a section on dns-dhcp, but it looks like some sort of libvirt-internal setup so guests get their networking params from libvirt, and not my DHCP server. (I am looking for something similar to VirtualBox and Bridged networking. VBox does what I want when I select a bridged adapter). How do I set up networking so the VM Guest uses LAN DHCP? Thanks in advance.

On 2/26/24 20:57, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > [...] > ping... It's not unusual to wait for an answer a bit later than one day. As we are getting closer to release [1], folks are usually focused on fixing bugs and polishing code for the release.

On 2/25/24 10:34, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm having trouble understanding what I need to do so my VM guests use > the DHCP server on my LAN. I've read > <https://wiki.libvirt.org/VirtualNetworking.html#virtual-networking>;, > but I don't see the use case covered. There is a section on dns-dhcp, > but it looks like some sort of libvirt-internal setup so guests get > their networking params from libvirt, and not my DHCP server. > > (I am looking for something similar to VirtualBox and Bridged > networking. VBox does what I want when I select a bridged adapter). > > How do I set up networking so the VM Guest uses LAN DHCP? You have basically two options: 1) create a linux bridge (brctl addbr ...) or an OpenVSwitch bridge, plug your eth0 into it and then configure VMs to have their vNICs plugged into the bridge (<interface type='bridge'> <source bridge='...'/> ..). 2) Use macvtap (<interface type='direct'> <source dev='eth0'/> ...). There is a caveat though. While 2) is less labor intensive, it won't allow VMs to talk to each other. For that you'd need a switch with so called hairpin turned on.