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Subject: Re: dev/virtio stuff
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On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 17:00 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > [root@fbsd ~]# ifconfig vtnet0
> > vtnet0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
> > metric 0 mtu 1500
> >    
> >
> options=c07bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
> >     ether 54:52:00:2a:63:af
> >     inet 213.xxx.xxx.13 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 213.xxx.xxx.255
> >     inet6 fe80::5652:ff:fe2a:63af%vtnet0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> >     inet6 2001:470:xxx:xxx::1 prefixlen 64
> >     inet 10.10.24.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.24.255
> >     nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> >     media: Ethernet 1000baseT <full-duplex>
> >     status: active 

Some google foo landed me on an IBM site that hinted at me that the
virsh commands of RHEL 5 don't know how to setup virtio on the network.
However, you can add it to the RHEL 5 config manually.


http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=
%2Fliaat%2Fliaatkvmfaq.htm

Sean