I am having a bit of trouble configuring a stable network with multiple linux guests each on indervidual NICs all on the same network, in fact I am not sure if what I am doing is the most effective method to achieve what I want.
So here is the goal:
Host OS is ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit headless runing on HP Prolient ML115 AMD Quad core with 8GB (MAX) RAM and 4gigabit NICS
eth0 - WAN
eth1, eth2, eth3 - LAN
Guest 1:
Zentyal 2.2 (ubuntu 10.04) 64bit acting as a gateway, dhcp server, DNS server, etc for the local network with 2 virtio NICs
eth0 bridged to the WAN
eth1 bridged to the LAN
Guest 2:
OpenMediaVault (debian 6?) 64bit acting as a file server to the LAN with 1 virtio NIC
eth0 bridged to the LAN
Guest 3:
Ubuntu 6.06 64 bit with MYSQL 4.1 (needed for legacy purposes) on the LAN with e1000 NIC (virtio is not supported in this version of ubuntu)
eth0 bridged to the LAN
I initally wanted a bonded interface on the host but rapidly gave up on this as it would also invole creating virtual adaptors of the bond, ie one for each guest?
So my interfaces file on the host looks liek this:
This would work initally but a simple reboot of the host and then there would be no connections to the LAN for the host or any guests and the LEDs in the host NICs just bink rapidly. The NICs are a mix of both broadcom and Intel.
I am not entiely sure what is going wrong or if there is a better way of doing it, possibly with an internal host network that breaks out to the LAN?
In the meantime I have gone back to Virtualbox but the network performanace is about a 1/3 of KMV :-(
So here is the goal:
Host OS is ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit headless runing on HP Prolient ML115 AMD Quad core with 8GB (MAX) RAM and 4gigabit NICS
eth0 - WAN
eth1, eth2, eth3 - LAN
Guest 1:
Zentyal 2.2 (ubuntu 10.04) 64bit acting as a gateway, dhcp server, DNS server, etc for the local network with 2 virtio NICs
eth0 bridged to the WAN
eth1 bridged to the LAN
Guest 2:
OpenMediaVault (debian 6?) 64bit acting as a file server to the LAN with 1 virtio NIC
eth0 bridged to the LAN
Guest 3:
Ubuntu 6.06 64 bit with MYSQL 4.1 (needed for legacy purposes) on the LAN with e1000 NIC (virtio is not supported in this version of ubuntu)
eth0 bridged to the LAN
I initally wanted a bonded interface on the host but rapidly gave up on this as it would also invole creating virtual adaptors of the bond, ie one for each guest?
So my interfaces file on the host looks liek this:
Code:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
##########################
##WAN interface & bridge##
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0
bridge_maxwait 0
##########################
##########################
##LAN interfaces & bridge##
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet manual
auto eth2
iface eth2 inet manual
auto eth3
iface eth3 inet manual
auto br1
iface br1 inet static
address 10.0.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
bridge_ports eth1 eth2 eth3
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0
bridge_maxwait 0
##########################I am not entiely sure what is going wrong or if there is a better way of doing it, possibly with an internal host network that breaks out to the LAN?
In the meantime I have gone back to Virtualbox but the network performanace is about a 1/3 of KMV :-(