[Qemu-devel] Connecting vde and LAN

[Oliver Gerlich]

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Hello,
what is the best solution to connect the vde "switch" to my real LAN so
that Qemu guests get IPs from my LAN-wide DHCP server?

So far I've experimented with bridging tap0 and eth0 so that the Qemu
guests are transparently on my LAN and get IPs from the LAN-wide DHCP
server. But this has the drawback that my host network interface is now
br0 instead of eth0 (that causes confusion at least for samba).
Also I tried to set up IP forwarding between tap0 and eth0, but then the
Qemu guests aren't transparently on my LAN (and don't get the correct
config from the DHCP server).

So, are there other solutions that offer the power of bridging with the
simpleness of IP forwarding? What do you recommend to establish a LAN
with real hosts and Qemu instances side by side? Such a setup could be
interesting for all users who want more than user-net and who have a
"SOHO router" at home which provides DHCP and Dynamic DNS!

Thanks in advance,
Oliver Gerlich
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