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CentOS 8 Essentials
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CentOS 8 Essentials

by Neil Smyth
May 2020
Beginner
261 pages
6h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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23. Creating a CentOS 8 KVM Networked Bridge Interface

By default, the KVM virtualization environment on CentOS 8 creates a virtual network to which virtual machines may connect. It is also possible to configure a direct connection using a MacVTap driver, though as outlined in the chapter entitled “An Overview of Virtualization Techniques”, this approach does not allow the host and guest systems to communicate.

The goal of this chapter is to cover the steps involved in creating a network bridge on CentOS 8 enabling guest systems to share one or more of the host system’s physical network connections while still allowing the guest and host systems to communicate.

In the remainder of this chapter we will cover the steps necessary to configure ...

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