On the next screen click on add hardware, then on network, then select Virtual network “macvtap_passthrough” Then double click on your vm and click on the big blue i Make sure all of your virtual interfaces that you used in the xml file are up.įor i in $(ifconfig –a | awk ‘/eth/ ’) do ifconfig $i up done virsh net-define macvtap_passthrough.xml
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Now go ahead and install the operating system as you would normally.Ĭreate a file that looks like the following We will configure network after we make sure migration between the two servers works properly. Click on vmstoarge, and select vm1.img then click forward. Click forward, select “select managed or other existing storage” and click the browse button. Memory I chose to leave this at its default of 1024, and assigned 1 cpu to the guest. Select Linux, for the OS type, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for the version. Click on use cdrom or dvd, and place a rh6.2 dvd in the dvd player on HV1.
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Now click on the terminal in the corner, right underneath file, and type the name of our vm in the box that is entitled Name, vm1 choose how your installation media, probably local install media, and click forward. Now you can close the connection details box by click on the x in the corner. And do the same in the allocation box then click finish.
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A new dialog will appear entitled add a storage volume. Click on vmstorage then click on new volume at the bottom. On HV1 server go back to the connection details screen, (this is the one that showed up when you double clicked on localhost (qemu), and click on the storage tab again. The next option is format, leave this set on auto: This is the path where we will mount our storage on the local server. You will see the last step of the network Storage Pool Dialog. In the name box type vmstorage, then click on the type box and select netfs: Network Exported Directory, now click next. A new window will appear entitled Add a New Storage Pool Down in the left hand corner is a box with a + sign in it, click on that. Then click on the storage tab at the top of the window that pops up On HV1 and HV2 start Virtual Machine Manager MIGRATION WILL NOT WORK WITHOUT FULLY QUALIFIED DOMAIN NAMES. Add all three machines ip addresses to each machines /hosts file. If you don’t do this you will have issues with not being able to access the share from within VirtManager. Edit /etc/exports and add the following Create a directory on where you want your storage to be. There are several methods available for this (FCOE/ISCSI/NFS). Create a storage area, where both HV1, and HV2 can access it. We will get to them in a minute however we first must address kvm and nfs. Linux/KVM VM Live Migration (SRIOV And MacVtap)īy Waseem Ahmad ( this scenario we are using 3 machines: