Re: reaching the guest from the host through network

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr redhat com>]

On 02/08/2013 03:43 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr redhat com> wrote:
> > On 02/08/2013 12:36 PM, Emmanuel Touzery wrote:
> > > looking at this:
> > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677688
> > >
> > > it seems that at least for now my best bet would be using virt-manager
> > > which is more powerful than gnome-boxes. I'll try that now.
> >
> >
> > Bridging requires root access, something that boxes can't provide you right
> > now, since it can only access the unprivileged qemu session. Since
> > virt-manager can access the privileged qemu session, it also has access to
> > the libvirt bridge, and it will all work fine.
> >
> > Note that using wifi and having a working bridge is perfectly possible, a
> > wifi interface is very much like an ethernet interface for bridging
> > purposes.
>
> Thats what I thought too but seems libvirt guys do not agree:

I guess then I'm lucky, since I own 2 thinkpads where this works 
perfectly well then :)

> <zeenix> http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking#Bridged_networking_.28aka_.22shared_physical_device.22.29
> <zeenix> " Unfortunately, wireless interfaces cannot be attached to a
> Linux host bridge"
> <zeenix> is that really true?
> <zeenix> i clearly remember doing that with success
> <zeenix> that doc seem a bit outdated. Talks of disabling network
> manager for fedora 12
> <danpb> that is still accurate - you can't use bridges with wifi in
> general, because most wifi cards will refuse to send packets with
> different MAC addrs
> <danpb> and of course traffic from VMs will have different mac addrs