Robert L Cochran
2008-Dec-20 02:29 UTC
[Fwd: Re: [Fedora-xen] Using Wireless Connection In KVM]
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 05:39:03PM -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote: > >> How can I get my Fedora 10 guest to use a wireless connection? Do I need >> to configure a wireless "bridge" adapter? That is, if the wired adapter >> bridge is ifcfg-eth0 referencing "br0" perhaps I need a second named >> ifcfg-wlan0 referencing "br1"? >> >> In short: does anyone have wireless working for Fedora 10, KVM guests? >> If yes, can the configuration details be shared with me? I''m dying to >> use wireless in my guest. Laptops were never meant for long trailing >> wires if you ask me... >> > > Wireless + bridging == fail. > > When creating the guest you should use libvirt''s ''default'' virtual > network, which is NAT based and specifically designed to play nicely > with NetworkManager > > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking > > So no matter what wifi network/adress your host has, the guest will still > get outbound traffic through > > Daniel >Thanks for the advice. I want to be able to use wireless, but still get a specific IP address on my home network in the 192.168.1.x range. The virtual network doesn''t use that address range by default. I guess I could kludge this...I''ll have to think carefully about the networking that I''m doing. Bob