[OmniOS-discuss] kvm networking

[Graham Stephens]

Thanks Dominik, that fits with the way it worked best during my 
experimentation.
The unix socket is a good idea, I had wondered how to get round that.

It turns out that my issue was a complete newb one - I used tcpdump from 
within the guest and found the packets were reaching the OS after all.
I had used the CLI to add rules to iptables on the guest for the mail 
server, not realising that it was dumb and was appending the rules AFTER 
the default-supplied REJECT rule. After re-writing and reloading the 
ruleset, all is now well.

Thanks for the assistance and the tips.

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On 09/06/2015 23:32, Dominik Hassler wrote:
> Graham,
>
> With "dedicated vnic" I meant that you don't apply an address for it
> within the zone. The zone is aware of it but you should not set it up.
> Sorry if my description was a bit misleading...
>
> If you want to use VNC you'll have to setup a second vnic in the zone
> config and apply an address for that one or use a unix socket for VNC
> which is my preferred option.
>
> Adding the vnics as network resources is perfectly fine.
>