cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/16531247

I have tried to follow several tutorial to setup using either ip or nmtui:

However, the bridge inherits the MAC address of host after enslaving the host hardware enp1s0.... This causes my router to give both the host and the bridge the same ip address, making the ha instance inaccessible.

The red hat tutorial clearly show that the bridge and the host have different IP, so I was wondering if I am doing something wrong.

alternatively, I can set the home assistant vm to run in NAT and port forward from host, but I have several device that communicate over different ports. So it would be annoying to forward all these ports. Not to mention, many appliances don’t have documentation about the ports they use.

I can also potentially use virtualbox, but it is not well supported on silverblue, especially with secureboot enabled.

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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    3 months ago

    No, because the bridge interface becomes the primary interface as far as Linux is concerned.

    You’d just use dhcp to assign an IP to br0 instead of the physical ethernet device, though for a server a static IP is probably a better choice (so that it doesn’t bounce around on your local network making it harder to access)

    • baseless_discourse@mander.xyzOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Sorry, a stupid question.

      If the bridge is the primary interface on host, and the homeassistant KVM also uses this bridge, will this cause them to get the same IP again?

      Thank you for your patience.

      • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Unless there’s something wonky with your virsh configuration, no.

        This is a shitty explanation and if anyone would like to explain it better feel free, but the bridge interface acts as sorta like a network switch that can forward packets as well as be used for an interface, if configured.

        What that means is, essentially, your VMs will be attaching their ethernet devices to a “switch” that then routes the packets out to the local LAN as if it were, well, a nic plugged into a switch.

        virsh shouldn’t assign an in-use MAC, as it generates a random one (and I have no idea what you’d have to do to make them not do that) so everything should… just work.