2011-12-02, 09:55 PM
I got it to work with some help from SLF people and using the redhat deployment guide. The important thing to know is that when you install kvm and related software it automatically makes a bridge named(virbr0), this bridge uses NAT networking. So you can connect to internet but others can't connect to your vm. The second bridge is a bridge that's directly connected to your host nic. You can assign this bridge to a vm and others on your network will be able to connect to your vm. Here's the guide how to set that up. The other important thing is how you setup your vm nic. I tried setting up a static but couldn't get that to work and I was confused about nic network configuration. So I got the Red Hat Deployment Guide to help me out. I got it setup and reboot my vm network and now I have network/internet connection. Also I had to # out a rule in my /etc/sysconfig/iptables cuz it blocked my vm from accessing the network on my host.
This line: -A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
I'm still going to figure out to get it to work with static ip just to know how to do it. But I can assign ip's to mac's in my router. So not much of a problem.
It took a while and some help but I did learn from it :)
here's to post on the SLF
Cheers!!