libvirt users - Sep 2011 - How to dedicate a NIC for VM traffic without assigning it an IP

I am testing out a new server with RHEL6 running KVM. We have a few
NICs on the server, one of which we would like to dedicate to network
traffic to/from the virtual guests. Is it possible to do this without
assigning an IP address to the NIC? We're currently doing something
like this with Vmware Server, HP's HPVM for HP-UX/IA, and IBM's
PowerVM for AIX.

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albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)

Il giorno Mer 07 Set 2011 15:31:45 CEST, Albert Chin ha
scritto:
> I am testing out a new server with RHEL6 running KVM. We have a few
> NICs on the server, one of which we would like to dedicate to network
> traffic to/from the virtual guests. Is it possible to do this without
> assigning an IP address to the NIC? We're currently doing something
> like this with Vmware Server, HP's HPVM for HP-UX/IA, and IBM's
> PowerVM for AIX.
For a similar situation I've used vlan tagging, declaring the interface 
as follows:

auto eth0.111
iface eth0.111 inet static
         address 192.168.0.0
         netmask 255.255.255.0
         vlan_raw_device eth1

And so on for the other networks.

Bye,

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