{"id":345,"date":"2011-02-05T18:56:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T18:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/?p=345"},"modified":"2016-03-19T16:52:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T15:52:19","slug":"gentoo-kvm-virtual-machine-support-plus-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Gentoo KVM virtual machine support plus networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"external external-http\" href=\"http:\/\/en.gentoo-wiki.com\/wiki\/KVM\" target=\"_blank\">Gentoo Wiki article<\/a> about KVM uses the less flexible networking setup with dedicated TAP devices like &#8216;tap0&#8217;. While this setup works fine, other distributions use the bridge device in a different way. By creating a virtual bridge and forcing the host system to connect through this bridge, virtual machines can simply connect to the bridge device and &#8216;plug in&#8217;. No need to manually create TAP devices. In this guide we will set up host and guest networking using the virtual bridge device and DHCP for wired ethernet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-button-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/?p=345#more-345\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"faux-button\">Continue reading<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Gentoo KVM virtual machine support plus networking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gentoo Wiki article about KVM uses the less flexible networking setup with dedicated TAP devices like &#8216;tap0&#8217;. While this setup works fine, other distributions use the bridge device in a different way. By creating a virtual bridge and forcing the host system to connect through this bridge, virtual machines can simply connect to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[326,450,456,451],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-tos","tag-gentoo","tag-kvm","tag-libvirt","tag-qemu"],"views":6060,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberwizzard.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}