<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(0, 0, 0); FONT-SIZE:
12px"><div>Thanks all for the suggested tips. I confess I tried
VMWare hypervisor esxi and found it less complicated to get set up and
functioning correctly. <br /><br />I'll have to take up KVM
another day, when I'm in less of a hurry to get something up and running
right away. <br
/></div><div> </div><div> </div><div
style="border-top:1px solid #bcbcbc;margin:5px
0px;"></div><span
style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;">On 03/18/16,
<span>Mike - st257<silvertip257@gmail.com></span>
wrote:</span><div> </div><div
style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;"><div
dir="ltr">Paul,<div><br /><div
class="gmail_extra"><br /><div
class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Digimer
<span dir="ltr"><<a class="parsedEmail"
href="mailto:lists@alteeve.ca"
target="_blank">lists@alteeve.ca</a>></span>
wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="margin:0px 0px 0px
0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span
class="">On 17/03/16 04:47 PM, <a class="parsedEmail"
href="mailto:paul.greene.va@verizon.net"
target="_blank">paul.greene.va@verizon.net</a> wrote:<br
/>> Thanks, I followed the 2nd article, and it got the existing
virtual<br />> machines communicating with each other.<br
/></span></blockquote><div><br /></div><div
style="">Right, so your VMs are on the same bridge group now (at
Layer2 of OSI).</div><div> </div><blockquote
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span
class="">><br />> However, any new virtual machines I
created after making the changes<br />> can't communicate with
anything, they can't even get out to the<br />> internet, even if I
manually set the IP address info. Any suggestions on<br />> that?<br
/>><br />> Paul<br
/></span></blockquote><div><br /></div><div
style="">Have you verified connectivity to the VMs' default
gateway?</div><div style="">Does the ARP (address
resolution protocol) process succeed?</div><div
style="">arp -a | grep
<Default_Gateway_IP_here></div><div style=""><a
href="http://linux-ip.net/html/ether-arp.html"
target="_blank">http://linux-ip.net/html/ether-arp.html</a><br
/></div><div style=""><br /></div><div
style="">You may not have a NIC connected to your physical network
in that bridge group.</div><div style="">If so you need to
modify your network-scripts to make that happen automatically on
boot.</div><div style="">You do not necessarily need an IP
address on your bridge interface unless the VM host is acting as a router
(default gateway).</div><div style=""><a
href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/s2-networkscripts-interfaces_network-bridge.html"
target="_blank">https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/s2-networkscripts-interfaces_network-bridge.html</a><br
/></div><div style=""><br /></div><div
style="">Here's an example:</div><div
style=""><div>~]# cat
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-XX_br0 </div><div>DEVICE=XX_br0</div><div>TYPE=Bridge</div><div>BOOTPROTO=static</div><div>ONBOOT=yes</div><div>DELAY=0</div><div>NM_CONTROLLED=no</div></div><div
style=""><br /></div><div style="">You
can temporarily add an interface to the bridge group for testing purposes
though.</div><div style="">brctl addif <bridge>
<interface></div><div style=""><a
href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BRIDGE-STP-HOWTO/set-up-the-bridge.html"
target="_blank">http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BRIDGE-STP-HOWTO/set-up-the-bridge.html</a><br
/></div><div> </div><blockquote
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span
class=""><br /></span>Check that they're using your
static bridge. 'virsh dumpxml <vm>' will<br />have a section
like:<br /><br />====<br /> <interface
type='network'><br /> <mac
address='52:54:00:71:20:fa'/><br />
<source network='bcn_bridge1'
bridge='bcn_bridge1'/><br />
<target dev='vnet2'/><br />
<model type='e1000'/><br />
<alias name='net2'/><br />
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00'
slot='0x05'<br />function='0x0'/><br />
</interface><br />====<br /><br />That tells
you that the interface is MAC '52:54:00:71:20:fa' is "plugged<br
/>in" to the bridge 'bcn_bridge1'. If that doesn't connect
to the right<br />bridge, then you need to change it (virt-manager has a
simple to use GUI<br />for this, or you can use 'virsh edit
<vm>' if you're comfortable editing<br
/>XML).</blockquote></div><div
class="gmail_extra"><br /></div><div
class="gmail_extra" style="">An additional command to run
to verify your Ethernet bridge(s) operation is:</div><div
class="gmail_extra" style="">brctl
show</div><div class="gmail_extra"
style="">brctl show <bridge></div><div
class="gmail_extra" style=""><br
/></div><div class="gmail_extra"
style=""><div class="gmail_extra">~]# brctl show
XX_br0</div><div class="gmail_extra">bridge name<span
class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>bridge
id<span class="" style="white-space:pre">
</span>STP enabled<span class=""
style="white-space:pre"> </span>interfaces</div><div
class="gmail_extra">XX_br0<span class=""
style="white-space:pre"> </span>8000.00151713fdbc<span
class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>no<span
class="" style="white-space:pre">
</span>p1p1</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span
class="" style="white-space:pre">
</span>vnet0</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span
class="" style="white-space:pre">
</span>vnet1</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span
class="" style="white-space:pre">
</span>vnet11</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span
class="" style="white-space:pre">
</span>vnet12</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span
class="" style="white-space:pre">
</span>vnet13</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span
class="" style="white-space:pre">
</span>vnet19</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span
class="" style="white-space:pre">
</span>vnet2</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span
class="" style="white-space:pre">
</span>vnet4</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span
class="" style="white-space:pre">
</span>vnet6</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span
class="" style="white-space:pre">
</span>vnet7</div><div><br
/></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br
/></div>-- <br /><div
class="gmail_signature">---~~.~~---<br />Mike<br
/>// SilverTip257
//</div></div></div></div><br /><hr
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