Re: [Qemu-discuss] FW: How to setup qemu as a server with different subdomain on a host server?

[Allen Choong]

Thanks for your good suggestions.

However, I have a problem when I want to add the wlan0 interface to the br0. It produces this message,

    can't add wlan0 to bridge br0: Operation not supported

This is a problem caused by OS or a other error? Since you mentioned that bridge can work with any interface.

Regards,
Allen

> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:38:07 +0200
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> Subject: Re: [Qemu-discuss] FW: How to setup qemu as a server with different subdomain on a host server?
>
> On 10-04-2013 04:19, Allen Choong wrote:
> > I am trying to solve a problem, with a Linux server work as host,
> > while qemu guest will have another server intended for subdomain.
> > I tried to make the host to access the guest server. And I read that
> > this can be done through bridge. But I am concerning that the bridge
> > only works with the wired interface, because I wish to make the guest
> > server accessed by any connection to the host server.
> >
> Bridged networking works with any network interface. While various
> "management" tools may have silly restrictions about what their UI lets
> you select, the bridge is really a standard part of the host's Linux
> kernel and can be set up for any network interface, provided you set up
> the bridge *before* assigning IP addresses etc. (because those should be
> assigned to the br0, br1 etc. interfaces that contain the physical
> interfaces, not directly to the physical interfaces).
>
> >
> > To simplify, I wish to setup my host server which contains the guest
> > server as a subdomain, and the server can be accessed by other computers.
> >
> If you want to have different web domains (I guess that is what you are
> talking about) served by different servers but with the same IP address,
> you should use a "reverse proxy" such as pound that listens on the
> public IP address port 80, looks at each incoming HTTP request and
> passes on the request to various private IPs assigned to the real web
> servers. This is the same for virtual servers as it is for real servers.
> >
> > I have tried to use qemu with "redir" options, but it doesn't work
> > with "-net user". I tried with redirection because I think I can use
> > Apache to create the subdomain with different port.
> Those options don't seem appropriate for a web server. I would use
> bridging with either of the following setups:
>
> a) Your network connection allows you multiple IP addresses, set up
> Linux bridging on the host: Set qemu to join a virtual network interface
> to each bridge, and assign the extra IP address to the interfaces inside
> the Guest.
>
> b) You need to share one IP address between host and guest, but they
> don't need to listen on the same ports: Set up a "private" bridge with
> no physical network adapter included and assign it a private network
> range (such as 10.11.12.0/24) that you don't use elsewhere, manually
> assign it an IP address in the host (such as 10.11.12.1). Set qemu to
> join a virtual network interface to this bridge and assign a different
> IP address in the range (such as 10.11.12.13) inside the Guest. On the
> host use iptables etc. to set up NAT and routing, including port
> redirection etc.
>
> c) You need to share one IP address between host and guest, and they DO
> need to listen on the same ports: Set up a "private" bridge as in b) and
> supplement with various reverse proxy software for the different
> protocols that need to share ports (pound or apache for http and https,
> a carefully configured closed relay mail server for SMTP, an
> authoritative DNS slave for multiple "hidden primary" authoritative DNS
> servers, etc.).
>
> With these methods network packets can typically use optimized code
> paths in the host's Linux kernel to reach the Guest quickly, especially
> if you use kvm.
> >
> >
> > Is there any solution?
> >
> >
> > (Besides that, I have a very poor knowledge about the networking
> > especially bridge, tap, tun, and vlan.)
> >
> If your physical network caries multiple VLANs over the same physical
> network connection (layer 2 IEEE 802.1q VLANs), you should set up a
> bridge on the host for each VLAN and set up one virtual ethernet adapter
> in qemu for each bridge you want to connect that guest to, to qemu, the
> guest and most of the host each VLAN will look like a separate physical
> network. The only thing that sees that these are really VLANs on the
> same physical connection is the bridge setup commands run when booting
> the host.
> >
> >
>
>
> Enjoy
>
> Jakob
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