hello all,

I work for a Windows riddle company so to keep the fight going on, I installed Linux on my work laptop then installed kvm and windows 7. this win7 is in the AD domain of the company, it is great, I can use my linux and still use the tools of the company

when I plug the laptop on the network, it gets an IP from the DHCP server, so far so good, then do a NAT for the KVM guest (win7)

this has been functioning very well for the last 3 years.

however, one of the problem I encounter is that I cannot debug the network issues from the Guest win7. a simple ping will not work, a nmap or wireshark will not work, from the guest OS

I suppose the solution is a bridge network so the guest OS will be able to request an IP from the company DHCP.
however, all the doc I found specify that the Host NIC needs to have an IP. this I cannot do as I get the ip via DHCP from the company as well

part of my job is to visit different offices in different countries, so I do not have the possibility to use a static IP. I am in a different subnet few times a day

anyone knows a doc to install a bridge network for KVM or VirtualBox (I can migrate, not a problem) using DHCP for both the host and the guest OS ?

for info, I use LMDE 2 on my laptop, with a dualboot to ArchLinux in case the first one will go dead

thx

Dereut

I have VBox (Windows 7 host, openSUSE guest) set up with bridged networking. I often have both set up using DHCP, and sometimes with one set up using a static IP for my work as a network engineer. I also frequently have a VPN connection on one while using native connection on the other. No problems with using it like this. It's not hard to configure.

This might help make things clear to you
http://catlingmindswipe.blogspot.co....-part-two.html