On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 05:32:41PM -0400, Itamar Heim wrote:
On 05/04/2014 05:54 AM, John Smith wrote:
Hi,
Im very new to virtualization on Linux, wanting to kick the tires some, and am wondering where best to go next.
Right now, ive done the 'all in one install' of ovirt 3.4 on a single fedora 19 machine. Its a desktop with a wifi network interface, and im trying to set up the kvm hypervisor in combination with macvtap. Any pointers to docs on what best to do next is appreciated. Im currently trying to make sense of this: http://www.ovirt.org/Quick_Start_Guide
Also, as far as I can tell, there seems to be an issue with the detection of my wireless wifi network interface 'wlp2s0' as it doesnt seem to show up anywhere in the interface. I can attach the 'ovirtmgmt' network to my standard wired ethernet interface 'p2p2', but that device is not in use on the machine and it is disconnected from the network.
Reading about linux virt and issues with bridging with wifi NIC's on the web made me, perhaps incorrectly here, assume that a wifi nic might be an issue, so thats where the idea to use macvtap came from.
Manual setup of macvtap seems to work, as i can do this without issues on a root prompt on the same machine:
ip link add link wlp2s0 name macvtap0 type macvtap ip link set macvtap0 address 1a:46:0b:ca:bc:7b up ip link show macvtap0
But the wifi interface 'wlp2s0' does not seem to show up in the ovirt web gui interface.
Im sorry if I sound confusing here, but that may be just because im really still confused about ovirt. ;)
So any pointers on what to read up on or do next is appreciated,
Thanks,
Regards,
John Smith. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
ovirt is meant to manage your datacenter, so not the best match for running with a wireless nic i guess. vdsm may even be filtering it (danken?)
It is, because oVirt only supports bridge-based VM networks, and Linux does not allow you to bridge a WiFi nic. To work around this limitation, you could define a NAT-based network in libvirt http://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html#examplesNAT and use it in oVirt via vdsm-hook-extnet (a bit more about it in http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/02/25/extending-rhev-vdsm-hooks/ ) Dan.