[PLUG] DHCP with QEMU

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Fri Jul 13 15:33:20 UTC 2018


On 07/12/2018 10:50 PM, wes wrote:
> I have no experience iwth QEMU specifically, but in general you need to
> configure the VM guest with "bridged mode" networking. That should at least
> give you some relevant terms to ask Google about.

After I sent my email last night I remembered NAT vs. Bridged from when 
I set up VirtualBox. I expect that's where I need to go with this.

> This page seems to talk about it:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Bridged_networking_using_qemu-bridge-helper

That looks useful.

> Seems to be a lot more complex than it is in other VM host environments.
> But I haven't tried it, maybe it's easier than it looks....

That's what I'm finding, too. But, it's available to me, and I can still 
work with my VirtualBox setup until I get QEMU working.

Thanks!

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Regards,

Dick Steffens




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