[ovirt-users] Assign external IP to VM

[Alex Bartonek]

geez.. I was super far off. LOL.  That did it!!!   This is so awesome.  Thanks for the assist!

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Assign external IP to VM
> Local Time: December 27, 2017 1:20 AM
> UTC Time: December 27, 2017 7:20 AM
> From: ehaas at redhat.com
> To: Alex Bartonek <Alex at unix1337.com>
> users at ovirt.org <users at ovirt.org>
>
> It is not clear what you did exactly, but, if I try to summarize, this setup should work for you:
> - Create a network (network->networks) and mark it as a VM network.
> - Create a vNIC profile (network->networks->[network]->Vnic Profiles.
> - Attach the network on the relevant NIC on your host (compute->hosts->[host]->Network Interface->Setup Hos Networks).
> (No need to set an IP on these networks, unless you need the host stack itself and not only the vms to access these networks)
> - Create or edit your VM, create a vnic (or edit one) and point it to the relevant vnic profile you created earlier.
>
> Do this for each nic you mentioned, and it should work for you.
>
> The use of SRIOV or pci-passthrough is taking this a step further, mainly when you need high throughput.
> For SRIOV you need special NIC hardware and the pci-passthrough is limiting one vnic per nic, which is wasteful if you do not really need it.
> Thanks,
> Edy.
>
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:38 AM, Alex Bartonek <Alex at unix1337.com> wrote:
>
>> Need some guidance on this one.
>>
>> Config:
>> 1U with 2 NICs.
>> NIC 1 plugged to local switch - gets local IP
>> NIC 2 plugged direct to cable modem - need to set IP inside VM to public static IP
>> VM will be CentOS, already know how to configure NIC once I can get the 2nd NIC assigned to it.
>>
>> Do I use PCI passthru?  Or where do I start to get this configured?  I did setup NIC 2 under Network --> Networks.   Created a NIC called "external_NIC".  External NIC has description and then I configured 2 DNS servers which are given to me by the ISP.
>>
>> Under Compute --> Hosts --> <My Host> --> Network Interfaces (I have both NICs showing as up) --> Setup Host Networks ---> NIC 2 is the interface --> Assignment of Logical networks is "external_NIC".
>>
>> I was assuming I was done, so I go to my VM add NIC 2, click run and I see:
>>
>> Cannot run VM. There is no host that satisfies current scheduling constraints. See below for details:
>>
>> - The host <MY HOST> did not satisfy internal filter Network because there are no free virtual functions which are suitable for virtual nic(s) nic2. A virtual function is considered as suitable if the VF's configuration of its physical function contains the virtual nic's network/network label.
>>
>> Need guidance on what to read to get this working.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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