How to add a NIC to a CentOS7 KVM guest
Posted: 2015/02/20 17:15:46
Team,
I have spent a few hours googling this but am not able to find any direct steps to accomplish this.
On host:
[root@kvm home]# ip addr show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp4s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 00:13:3b:0f:43:de brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: enp6s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 00:13:3b:0f:43:df brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master virbr0 state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 80:c1:6e:df:0e:f2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: virbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP
link/ether 80:c1:6e:df:0e:f2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.122.1/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global virbr0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet 192.168.1.94/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global virbr0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
8: vnet0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master virbr0 state UNKNOWN qlen 500
link/ether fe:54:00:07:75:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::fc54:ff:fe07:7556/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
So, I would like to "give" the NIC corresponding to enp4s0 to the KVM guest.
Please let me know if you need more information.
Any ideas will be gratefully accepted. I appreciate the continued support. Regards,
Kartik Vashishta
I have spent a few hours googling this but am not able to find any direct steps to accomplish this.
On host:
[root@kvm home]# ip addr show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp4s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 00:13:3b:0f:43:de brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: enp6s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 00:13:3b:0f:43:df brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master virbr0 state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 80:c1:6e:df:0e:f2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: virbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP
link/ether 80:c1:6e:df:0e:f2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.122.1/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global virbr0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet 192.168.1.94/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global virbr0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
8: vnet0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master virbr0 state UNKNOWN qlen 500
link/ether fe:54:00:07:75:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::fc54:ff:fe07:7556/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
So, I would like to "give" the NIC corresponding to enp4s0 to the KVM guest.
Please let me know if you need more information.
Any ideas will be gratefully accepted. I appreciate the continued support. Regards,
Kartik Vashishta