[nmglug] and dhcp leases for virt-manager! [was Re: local repo copies, and dinner?]

[James Hemsing]

Reusing MAC addresses for VMs will probably prevent lease consumption
unless the the DHCP server is more clever and uses other information about
the system to store leases.

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 1:37 PM Mark Galassi <mark at galassi.org> wrote:

>
>     js> I'm a big fan of bridging the hosts interface so that the
>     guest
>     js> kvm can access the LAN directly
>
> I agree that it is the best way to do set up VMs for many
> purposes.
>
> But I'm talking about another use for virt-managed KVM VMs: I like
> to
> simulate setups that are independent of the local network, and
> setups
> that are shut off from most of the world.  (Also sometimes for
> quick
> "create, run release engineering/qa scripts, destroy" purposes.)
>
> I then like to have a rapid procedure that stands-up these
> configurations.
>
> For such a simulation the default NAT works well, and I'm trying
> to give
> it a transportable configuration with less volatile ip addresses
> and
> some repos.
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