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Assign IP to Guest VM in KVM
September 26, 2010 - 2:02am
I have a server with 5 Public IPs.
I have installed CentOS as Host and KVM virtualization.
Creating a Guest is simple using virt-manager.
I wanted to know how to give one Public IP out of the 5 to a Guest VM.
In OpenVZ its pretty simple as you can use vzctl 101 --ipadd.
How to do this in KVM ?
Configure the guest vm for bridged networking and then configure
the guest os to use that ip you want... ?
greetings joern
I wonder if he wants to assign an ip address at the time of creation of the machine? I.e perhaps virt-install to have an option that would configure the built-in dhcp server to bind given ip address to the guest's mac?
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Right. Is there a way to "assign" a static address to the guest (not on the internal/bridged network) but on the "external" network.
I have not come across a way to do that.
Also, once assigned (if possible), how to change it (comes later and may answer itself based on the above)
thanks
-a
I also have the similar question, I use the open vswitch to create a bridge, and every guest on the host connect the bridge and get a public ip address assigned by DHCP server in the external router.
Is that possible to detect the guest IP address without typing the "ifconfig" in each guest?
I was hoping to use the third party tool, like libvirt, to probe the Ip address, so far I have not found yet. Any people have ideas? Thank you.
if you can use libvirt, it is a virtualization library, and it has a configuration file, which can configure both mac address or IP address. IP address can be any IP address.
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