Can’t thank you enough for this. After reading half a dozen “guides” with spelling mistakes, inconsistencies, and just terrible explanations, destroying my system as many times and nearly a dozen Ubuntu reinstalls… THIS was the guide and explanation I needed all along! Simple, to the point, and with a good background of how, why, and what we are doing. Thank you again.
I can totally agree, so many weird guides that are all completely different but this video explained it extraordinarily well it's almost unbelievable, my bridge works perfectly and thank you a lot for your effort!
Brother I spent 4+ hours troubleshooting with forums and google searches. Decided to try UA-cam and your guide immediately solved my problem. Thank you so much.
It's funny how much the "why" helps so much with the "how" in terms of trying to get your head around what's happening. Especially if you take a wrong turn / use a different tool but want to achieve the same outcome or have to troubleshoot things. Thank you.
I feel compelled to take a moment to thank you for this guide. Like most everyone else commenting, I'm truly grateful I found this video. After watching a handful of other videos (most at least twice as long as this) and reading a number of guides, it wasn't until I watched your guide that I was able to successfully setup a bridged connection for my VMs. My VMs are hosted on Debian 11, but this guide still worked perfectly. Only slight issue I had is that I access my Linux box via VNC/SSH tunnel, so when I deleted the ethernet connection, it took me out. Fortunately I was somewhat expecting this and had an extra keyboard and monitor on hand. I was back up and running moments later. I look forward to watching more of your videos and have subscribed. Thanks again!
I appreciate the explanation at the beggining. I already knew all of this but in my search I found so many people confuse a nat with a bridge that it's hard to believe anyone unless they define it.
Can't thank you enough. I've gone threw multiple guides and all of them were missing parts. I think it was the fact the the original physical device needed to be removed. This was super straight to the point but chocked full of useful information. Amazing!
How much can I say thank you this video. I was suffering to make my open5GS core connecting to my UERANSIM on my virtual machine. And you save my life. Thank you very very very much
Thank you so much! After almost two days trying to make the bridge work in Virt-Manager, I discover in this video that it would only work with a wired network and that I will have to stop using Virt-Manager and start using VMWare! Thank you so much
Hello, thanks for the webinar that helped me a lot to create this bridge on TruNAS Scale version (Dragonfish-24.04.2). You are absolutely right when you say that it is not possible to use Wi-Fi. In my example on my notebook, Wi-Fi is in WAN mode and LAN is in Bridge mode in your method. Once again, my sincere thanks.
I love your guides. You explained every step in precise detail, which helps. It also helps you diagramed the concepts and showed how to test if something works.
Great video. As mentioned in several comments previously, I looked at a lot of other youtube videos and also went through the documentation and examples on a bunch of other websites. I whacked a couple of setups and ended up with no networking. Following your video, I set up a bridge and can no proceed with the tasks, such as configuring test setups of FreeIPA, and start making progress on other fronts. Again, Thank You!
you are my hero, after reading so many terribly written or outdated instructions about bridging my network your video made it work I can finally go to bed
Excellent. Finally someone who can explain bridge networking simply and clearly. This worked perfectly on Pop OS! 22.04. My VMs now have full connectivity internally and externally. Without having to change tricky configuration files in the host. Thank you.
How interesting and well explained, you saved my life tonight when you said you could not make it work with wireless networks. I was about to destroy everything here... I will go with virtual box this time! Thanks again!!!!
Thanks soooo much for this tuto. It changes my work with virt-manager so drastically, finally I can access my home network. i have been looking for a tutorial for soooo long
For you it looks like very easy, for me as beginner you can not imagen what this guide means. You just explained what I really needed. Thank you, thank you thank you, and thank you again. Cheers!
Your channel is amazing you actually saved me so much time and helped me to understand everything in a simple manner. You earned a new sub, thanks and keep it up !
Great explanation, very well done and understandable. 5 stars for showing all the steps and proving your work with command line. Many thanks for this video.
Thanks so much for doing this. I'm deploying a Cockpit Server and have been trying to wrap my head around the networking of the virtual machine manager. This got me a few steps further in finding the right configuration for my setup. ^^
I'm a Linux newb and just threw out Proxmox, which had no trouble networking. Installed Ubuntu, Kvm and virt manager. First, many VMs probably don't need a bridge, however, my first VM, home assistant, does need external access. Same searching for solutions as others, I'll play and replay, newb, and hopefully get there.😅 Thanks, subscribed! I'll update my comment soon with results! I hope! 😂 Update: Hmmm, newb struggling, fast vid and fast speaker, lol. I'll try again, hello, nmtui.😢 I'll keep trying, maybe make a new connection and delete the old one.
I wish I would of watched your video sooner. I remember starting it and moving somewhere else before finishing it. Would of saved me a timeshift from bricking my ethernet :)
OMG your video it's the best out there, and you didn't even try to solve my especific problem lul. Macvtap saved my week, I don't understand why NAT didn't wanted to connect to the internet, luckyly macvtap solved the problem, phew. Also, whats the difference between NAT and macvtap? thanks very thanks omg
Great tutorial, thanks. I have 2 VMs (VM1 & VM2). They need to be able to communicate with each other while VM2 needs to see the LAN as well as there are home automation devices on the LAN. In addition VM2 needs to see the Internet. Following your video do I setup NAT on VM1 (only sends/receives info from VM2) and bridged networking on VM2? Wonder where to even start with that.
Man, You are awesome!!! Best Bridge "Hands-on-tutorial" ever. I fear Linux network config, let alone Linux KVM. Why no Litecoin / Bitcoin Lightning donation box??
Fantastic video! Small question. If i create a bridge network on my bare metal, and the bare metal also has docker containers running, does that change something there aswell ?
Thank you for the insightful video. Is it possible to configure the local network to directly use the public-facing IP address of the router to host a public server?
Thank you for your tutorial! It really helped me out. I do have a question. If I want to make a bridge (or maybe other type of network device), without sharing Internet to the VM. So, the VM would be "Internet-less", but the host and the VM could talk to each other still? I do believe it is called host-only. If you have used Hyper-V, there it is called Internal Switch. I think right alternative is isolated network, but I am not sure.
Thank you! I have just one issue. When I want to choose the network bridge, it doesnt show it. It doesnt show my bridge that I just created? Do you know what I did wrong, because I followed everything EXACTLY as you did. So I go to virt-manager, go to my NIC, and want to select the network source but it's only showing 1. Virtual network NAT 'default' and 2. Macvtap device.
but i don't understand why is ethernet showing up as interface for the new bridge? why doesn't it have an ip address? how are the vms and host connected to same dhcp server ? the bridged set up is vms/ohost all connect to the bridge then the bridge connects to the router then to the internet so why is hosts's physical NIC (ethernet) showing as interface for the new bridge created?
Is this guide still relevant? I'm only asking because I'm having a lot of issues with my bridge. I takes forever to connect to the internet. Today it took three hours. Thank you by the way I do appreciate the guide, I learned a lot from it. I'm just wondering if there are additional steps I should be taking or if maybe I need to find a more recent guide. My host is running Debian 12 Bookworm.
Can’t thank you enough for this. After reading half a dozen “guides” with spelling mistakes, inconsistencies, and just terrible explanations, destroying my system as many times and nearly a dozen Ubuntu reinstalls… THIS was the guide and explanation I needed all along! Simple, to the point, and with a good background of how, why, and what we are doing. Thank you again.
I can totally agree, so many weird guides that are all completely different but this video explained it extraordinarily well it's almost unbelievable, my bridge works perfectly and thank you a lot for your effort!
Ditto
Ditto #2!
ditto#3
Brother I spent 4+ hours troubleshooting with forums and google searches. Decided to try UA-cam and your guide immediately solved my problem. Thank you so much.
I'm glad you found this helpful
This is the only and the ONLY true tutorial, to get bridging with QEMU/KVM running. Have done so successfully on a Manjaro-host. Thanks!
Thanks for your support and kind words!👍
It's funny how much the "why" helps so much with the "how" in terms of trying to get your head around what's happening. Especially if you take a wrong turn / use a different tool but want to achieve the same outcome or have to troubleshoot things. Thank you.
Thank you for your feedback!👍
I feel compelled to take a moment to thank you for this guide. Like most everyone else commenting, I'm truly grateful I found this video. After watching a handful of other videos (most at least twice as long as this) and reading a number of guides, it wasn't until I watched your guide that I was able to successfully setup a bridged connection for my VMs. My VMs are hosted on Debian 11, but this guide still worked perfectly. Only slight issue I had is that I access my Linux box via VNC/SSH tunnel, so when I deleted the ethernet connection, it took me out. Fortunately I was somewhat expecting this and had an extra keyboard and monitor on hand. I was back up and running moments later.
I look forward to watching more of your videos and have subscribed. Thanks again!
Deleting the default ethernet adapter was the missing link in 2 days of trying, thanks. Well done.
I appreciate the explanation at the beggining. I already knew all of this but in my search I found so many people confuse a nat with a bridge that it's hard to believe anyone unless they define it.
Thank you for your comment🙏
Out of all of the tutorials I found lately, yours was the only one working. I now have bridged networking configured and working.
THANK YOU!
I'm glad it turned out well👍
Can't thank you enough. I've gone threw multiple guides and all of them were missing parts. I think it was the fact the the original physical device needed to be removed. This was super straight to the point but chocked full of useful information. Amazing!
I am glad you found this helpful 😊
How much can I say thank you this video. I was suffering to make my open5GS core connecting to my UERANSIM on my virtual machine. And you save my life. Thank you very very very much
Such a clear understanding, thank you! After five guides online I still could not find what I wanted, you helped me a lot.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for your feedback👍
Thank you so much! After almost two days trying to make the bridge work in Virt-Manager, I discover in this video that it would only work with a wired network and that I will have to stop using Virt-Manager and start using VMWare! Thank you so much
I'm glad it turned out well!
Thanks a lot! As others have stated, this is the best guide for setting up bridged connections with QEMU/KVM. The explanation is impeccable
Thanks for your kind words!
Hello, thanks for the webinar that helped me a lot to create this bridge on TruNAS Scale version (Dragonfish-24.04.2). You are absolutely right when you say that it is not possible to use Wi-Fi. In my example on my notebook, Wi-Fi is in WAN mode and LAN is in Bridge mode in your method. Once again, my sincere thanks.
Thank you for making this clear and easy. I bookmarked this so I can watch again when I forget how to do it.
Wonderful! Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much! After a week of frustration I found this video and now I have all my VMs on my LAN.
I'm glad it turned out well.
I love you. After A TON of resources, finally someone who teach everything properly.
Thank you very much! 👍
Thank you!!! You saved me. After reading lots of guides and having no sucess just came across your video, followed your instructions and it worked!!
I am so glad you found this helpful 😊
I love your guides. You explained every step in precise detail, which helps. It also helps you diagramed the concepts and showed how to test if something works.
Thank you very much! Really glad you liked it!
Great video. As mentioned in several comments previously, I looked at a lot of other youtube videos and also went through the documentation and examples on a bunch of other websites. I whacked a couple of setups and ended up with no networking. Following your video, I set up a bridge and can no proceed with the tasks, such as configuring test setups of FreeIPA, and start making progress on other fronts. Again, Thank You!
Glad to hear that I could help you out!👍
Huge thanks! I spent hours and hours trying to get this to work. Following your video I now have my bridge connection working.
That's great to hear 👍 Thanks for the feedback!
Thank you for this. Short, sweet, clear and to the point.
Glad it was helpful!
you are my hero, after reading so many terribly written or outdated instructions about bridging my network your video made it work
I can finally go to bed
I'm glad that my video was helpful. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment
Excellent. Finally someone who can explain bridge networking simply and clearly.
This worked perfectly on Pop OS! 22.04.
My VMs now have full connectivity internally and externally. Without having to change tricky configuration files in the host.
Thank you.
Glad it helped! 👍
Thank you, making the transition from Windows to Linux and you just helped me get a bit closer to making that permanent.
Much luck with your Linux journey 😊
thank you so much, i read 15 different convoluted explanations and struggled for hours with this, your video did it for me in 5 minutes lol
Glad it helped ♥
I want to thank you for your classes! Mr. Congratulations! Thank you very much
I am glad you found this helpful. Thank you too! 😊
How interesting and well explained, you saved my life tonight when you said you could not make it work with wireless networks. I was about to destroy everything here... I will go with virtual box this time! Thanks again!!!!
You are welcome! Many times VirtualBox turns out to be the simplest solution...
Your channel deserves more subs. Such a clear and concise guides. I hope you grow more.
Thank you very much! I appreciate it a lot!
Thanks! That was excellent and the easiest tutorial on UA-cam that I've found. Well done!
Thanks a lot! :-)
Thanks soooo much for this tuto. It changes my work with virt-manager so drastically, finally I can access my home network.
i have been looking for a tutorial for soooo long
That makes me so happy to hear Olaf
Buscando y buscando como llevar a cabo este procedimiento y de verdad lo explicaste también y tan claramente!, muchas gracias!
Muchas gracias por tu comentario🤝
For you it looks like very easy, for me as beginner you can not imagen what this guide means. You just explained what I really needed. Thank you, thank you thank you, and thank you again. Cheers!
Glad it helped! Thanks for your support and kind words👍
You sir are a life saver. Nothing made sense anymore.
Your channel is amazing you actually saved me so much time and helped me to understand everything in a simple manner. You earned a new sub, thanks and keep it up !
Great explanation, very well done and understandable. 5 stars for showing all the steps and proving your work with command line. Many thanks for this video.
Glad it was helpful, thanks a lot!
Thank you for doing the video. The information here is super useful to me. Especially defining the virtual router versus switch.
Hi, thx for this super guide, after months of reading about bridges in kvm with osx vm`s this guide did everything in 10 minutes....Thanks again!
It really makes my day to read comments like yours. Thank you so much
Thank you so much for this video. After reading many guides that involved a lot of stuffing around this simple fix worked in minutes.
Thanks so much for doing this. I'm deploying a Cockpit Server and have been trying to wrap my head around the networking of the virtual machine manager. This got me a few steps further in finding the right configuration for my setup. ^^
I appreciate your comment Ricardo! It's always great to hear that viewers find my videos helpful
I'm a Linux newb and just threw out Proxmox, which had no trouble networking. Installed Ubuntu, Kvm and virt manager. First, many VMs probably don't need a bridge, however, my first VM, home assistant, does need external access. Same searching for solutions as others, I'll play and replay, newb, and hopefully get there.😅 Thanks, subscribed! I'll update my comment soon with results! I hope! 😂 Update: Hmmm, newb struggling, fast vid and fast speaker, lol. I'll try again, hello, nmtui.😢 I'll keep trying, maybe make a new connection and delete the old one.
נו תודה רבה ! כל הסרטונים המטרחנים האלו - והינה אתה בא, מסביר בפשוט, מראה מה לעשות. ואפילו הבנתי הכל על ההתחלה! סחטיןן!
שמח שזה עזר :-)
Thanks very much. This is by far the best explanation I'v ever seen.
You're very welcome, thanks a lot!
This helped me a lot I got to know how network bridge works
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. That saved me so much time and gave me an actual understanding of how to do this.
I am glad you found this helpful Philipp 😊
You are a goldmine dear sir :) . Best of wishes.
Wow, thank you! 👍
Thank you, the most helpful video/source for bridge networking I've seen so far.
Great to hear, thanks!
@@absprog But currently my problem is: in Network source I have selected Bridge nm-bridge:empty source. I have internet on my host PC.
@@absprog nvm, it works now
Excellent! Just what I was looking for. Saved my day totally!
Appreciate tons for the simple and practical explanation! Thanks!
i tried a lot of written manuals, but THIS HELPED! Thank you!!!! Ubuntu 20.04 TLS
okay one day after, i did a restart and the connection is gone :(
you are a true teacher. thank you so much.
Thanks for your kind words!
Very interesting, i do have right now a clearer comprehension about network management with Vms
I am glad you found this helpful👍
This video is very informative! Exactly what I was looking for. Can't thank you enough.
This was just what I needed!
Thanks so much :-)
Finally, a video that explains it all in detail and that is also easy to follow! Subscribing!
Thanks a lot!!
Thank you! I think I finally understood this networking mess
I'm glad to hear that you found the tutorial helpful 🤗
Sir, you made my day!! thank you! 🙏
I was struggling with this since many months!
SUBSCRIBED 💯
Glad it helped!
Thank you for the great explanation.
Glad it was helpful!
always good and simple explanations
That's great to hear
This is awesome just what I needed! Thanks for the great tutorial! Subscribed!
I wish I would of watched your video sooner. I remember starting it and moving somewhere else before finishing it. Would of saved me a timeshift from bricking my ethernet :)
:-) Glad it was helpful!
This was massively helpful. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful Jim! 👍
Just what I was looking for! Thank you my man!
Glad I could help!
Cool channel you got there btw ;-)
Nice video - I didn't know you could set this up over nmtui - i love that
Thanks a lot!
Thank you so much! You just saved me! Awesome job!
Glad I could help!👍
clear explanation, to the point. subscribed...
Awesome, thank you!
You literally saved my work day. Take my sub.
Glad to hear it helped, and thanks!
Clear, crisp , excelent.
Many thanks!
OMG your video it's the best out there, and you didn't even try to solve my especific problem lul. Macvtap saved my week, I don't understand why NAT didn't wanted to connect to the internet, luckyly macvtap solved the problem, phew.
Also, whats the difference between NAT and macvtap? thanks very thanks omg
Thank you, It is REALLY hard to find a clear explanation of KVM bridges and NAT for some reason.
I am glad you found this helpful 👍
Excellent video. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Good job, very educational. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Great tutorial, thanks. I have 2 VMs (VM1 & VM2). They need to be able to communicate with each other while VM2 needs to see the LAN as well as there are home automation devices on the LAN. In addition VM2 needs to see the Internet.
Following your video do I setup NAT on VM1 (only sends/receives info from VM2) and bridged networking on VM2? Wonder where to even start with that.
Man, You are awesome!!! Best Bridge "Hands-on-tutorial" ever. I fear Linux network config, let alone Linux KVM. Why no Litecoin / Bitcoin Lightning donation box??
Thanks a lot :-)
My channel is too small for it. I’m glad you found it useful though
Fantastic video! Small question. If i create a bridge network on my bare metal, and the bare metal also has docker containers running, does that change something there aswell ?
You cannot believe how often I watched this video 😂😂😂
👍
Thank you very much, it helped me a lot.
Glad it helped!
Thank you for the insightful video. Is it possible to configure the local network to directly use the public-facing IP address of the router to host a public server?
Phenomenal video my friend, Many Thanks!
Haha, Thank you so much!
THANK YOU!!
THANK YOU!!
THANK YOU!!
THANK YOU!!
Thanks for your support 😊
Thanks bro, Well explained!
Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks a bunch! I learned some stuff here!
That’s great to hear! Thanks!
Thanks for this tutorial!
Glad it was helpful!
finally I was able to do it, thanks a lot
Glad I could help!
In a nat network accessing the ip of the virbr from the guests would access the host machine if I remember correctly.
Thank you for your tutorial!
It really helped me out.
I do have a question. If I want to make a bridge (or maybe other type of network device), without sharing Internet to the VM. So, the VM would be "Internet-less", but the host and the VM could talk to each other still?
I do believe it is called host-only. If you have used Hyper-V, there it is called Internal Switch.
I think right alternative is isolated network, but I am not sure.
ROCKSTAR ! Finally it work`s
I am glad you found this helpful👍
Thank you!
I have just one issue. When I want to choose the network bridge, it doesnt show it. It doesnt show my bridge that I just created? Do you know what I did wrong, because I followed everything EXACTLY as you did. So I go to virt-manager, go to my NIC, and want to select the network source but it's only showing 1. Virtual network NAT 'default' and 2. Macvtap device.
I had the same issue. Had to reboot to get it to show
Thank you for this!!!!!
Thank you for your feedback and support 😊
Thanks a lot, you really helped.
You're welcome!
Amazing, Thanks for this video :)
Glad you liked it, thanks!
THANK YOU SIR 😍👏👏
👍
Great video! Thanks man
Glad you liked it! Thank you too Jesse! 👍
thanks, great explanation.😀
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Thank you so much!
Very good 👍 👏. Thanks
Glad it helped!🌟
Hi, can I ask how you booted to manjaro? I'm getting boot UEFI error
but i don't understand
why is ethernet showing up as interface for the new bridge?
why doesn't it have an ip address?
how are the vms and host connected to same dhcp server ?
the bridged set up is vms/ohost all connect to the bridge then the bridge connects to the router then to the internet so why is hosts's physical NIC (ethernet) showing as interface for the new bridge created?
Do you know how to take snapshots in virt-manager?
Made a video just for you :-)
Just released it, here's the link:
ua-cam.com/video/1SDvth66i-4/v-deo.html
Is this guide still relevant? I'm only asking because I'm having a lot of issues with my bridge. I takes forever to connect to the internet. Today it took three hours. Thank you by the way I do appreciate the guide, I learned a lot from it. I'm just wondering if there are additional steps I should be taking or if maybe I need to find a more recent guide. My host is running Debian 12 Bookworm.
Thank you so much for a great video. This was exactly what I needed.
Glad it was helpful!