If you want your virutal machines to have an IP on the house network (as opposed to NAT'd behind the host or on a private network), the easiest way is to give the guests actual house network IP addresses. If you wish to go this route, you have to configure your virtualization host to use brdiging and put the virtualization host's house network IP address on said bridge. The Fedora network tools don't really allow for you to do this easily as far as I have found. If I've missed something, please feel free to point me at it. However, once you do have it set up, tools like virt-manager/libvirt pick up on it right away and make it easy to put the managed guests on the house network. So the missing piece is really just offering an easy means to configure for this purpose. I'm not saying it should be the default by any means, but it would be nice if something like system-config-network had a dialog that helped you configure bridging on the virtualization host. These are the instructions I use to make a F11 virtualzation host use bridiging: * chkconfig network on * make ifcfg-eth0 look something like this (adjust for your network/MAC/etc): DEVICE=eth0 BRIDGE=br0 BOOTPROTO=none HWADDR=00:30:48:7d:8e:62 ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet NM_CONTROLLED=no IPV6INIT=no USERCTL=no * create ifcfg-br0 to look something like this, adjust for your network including possibly allocating static IP: DEVICE=br0 TYPE=Bridge BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes IPV6INIT=no USERCTL=no * Now restart the network (I normally reboot here). Other variants to these theme are out there. now, when you fire up virt-manager to allocate guests, it will pick up on this br0 network and allow guests to tie to the house network. So this request is asking for a guided/graphical means to set up a bridge.
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