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Reputation: 223

qemu/kvm: cannot connect multiple machines to the same socket

I'm trying to simulate a little network of 3 machines using QEMU where a machine (deb1) is directly connected with the host and the other 2 machines (deb2, deb3):

                      Host 
                       |
           -----------deb1-----------
           |                        |
          deb2                     deb3

deb1 is connected to 2 different networks, one (vlan 1) connects deb1 with the host, on the other one (vlan 2) will connect deb1 with the two other machines, so deb1 must listen from the port 1234:

kvm -hda deb1.img -m 256 \
-net nic,vlan=1 -net user,vlan=1 -net nic,vlan=2,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:57 \
-net socket,vlan=2,listen=localhost:1234

deb2 and deb3 both must be connected to deb1, the only difference is their mac address:

deb2:

 kvm -hda deb2.img -m 256 -net nic,vlan=2,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:01 \
 -net socket,vlan=2,connect=localhost:1234

deb3:

 kvm -hda deb3.img -m 256 -net nic,vlan=2,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:02 \
 -net socket,vlan=2,connect=localhost:1234

Once the three machines are started I just set their ip address:

deb1:

ifconfig eth1 192.168.10.2

deb2:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.10.3

deb3:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.10.4

Here the problem: the connection between deb1 and deb2 works perfectly, but not the one between deb1 and deb3. When I shutdown deb2 then the connection between deb1 and deb3 start to works. It looks like deb1 is not able to listen at the same time deb2 and deb3.

What am I doing wrong?

I actually followed what is written in this guide (look at the section 4.2 Guest-only network: "When you want to use more than three guest OSes, just connect to the one. Use different macaddr.") and this article

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1532

Answers (1)

Jörg Schulz
Jörg Schulz

Reputation: 314

-net socket,{listen|connect}=... is only suitable for 1:1 connections.

netstat -anp46|grep qemu shows that there is no connection between qemu of deb3 and deb1.

Use -net socket,mcast=... instead.

Upvotes: 2

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