KVM

List all VM:

virsh -c qemu:///system list

Auto Start:

virsh autostart vmName

Installation Guides

• Debian 7/8
• Debian 9

Example of /etc/network/interfaces

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

# Management IP Address
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
       address 192.168.1.2
       netmask 255.255.255.0
       network 192.168.1.0
       broadcast 192.168.1.255
       gateway 192.168.1.1
       bridge_ports eth0
       bridge_fd 9
       bridge_hello 2
       bridge_maxage 12
       bridge_stp off
       dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8
       dns-search ggeng.triumf.ca

# Unused
auto br1
iface br1 inet static
       address 0.0.0.0
       bridge_ports eth1
       bridge_fd 9
       bridge_hello 2
       bridge_maxage 12
       bridge_stp off

Restart the network:

systemctl restart network

Manually adding bridges

Create a bridge that is not listed in /etc/network/interfaces

brctl addbr br1

Assign Ethernet to bridge:

brctl addif br1 eth1

Confirm bridge is listed and working:

brctl show