The easiest way that I found to do this is to configure a bridge on your physical host's NIC, and then configure the KVM guest to use the shared device. I used the following general howto to originally get this set up: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-linux-kvm-virtualization-bridged-networkin... -Kevin On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:

Hello,

The host runs on CentOS 6. I have installed a guest, CentOS 5.7, using libvirt.

I am having difficulty understanding how to assign a public static IP address to the guest. From what I understand by reading the Wiki, I think I require routed mode.

The ISP has provided a 'portable' IP routed to the VLAN of our servers. I want to assign this IP address to the guest. From the virtual machine hardware details window, I see that "Virtual network 'default' : NAT" is selected for the source device field.

Can someone offer a helping hand and instruct and educate me on how to proceed from here?

Thanks.

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With warm regards, Sudheer. S

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