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KVM Debian tutorial
I'm currently experimenting with KVM virtualization on my Debian development dedi, but there's a couple things I don't quite understand. How to set up network bridging (also securing everything so machines can't use ip addresses from other machine to send traffic), how to assign multiple IP addresses to a machine and how to run a startup script on first boot.
I'm kinda looking for an all-in-one tutorial about KVM with Debian/Ubuntu. If someone has a good tutorial please let me know!
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I would use this: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-kvm-on-a-debian-squeeze-server
I'd highly recommend going through the API of libvirt with it's Python, Ruby, PHP, etc. implementations if you ever want to do a bit of scripting.
Otherwise, follow the above the tutorial and it'll get you started with setting up bridging! (I'm assuming you're being given an allocated amount of public IPs?)
@Kihi I have a /29 yeah.
That tutorial doesn't really explain me how to assign IP addresses to a machine or how bridging actually works, it just tells me what to do. I want to do everything from the CLI.
@Kihi I have 4 IP addresses available for virtual machines, I have created the bridge but I'm wondering how to assign one of the 4 available ip addresses to my virtual machine. All the traffic from a certain IP address has to be routed to the correct machine.
Nobody?