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Can I run hostapd in a virtual machine hosted in a windows system?

I would like to know if it is possible to run any linux/unix distribution with hostapd in a virtualized environment. My idea is to host a small virtual machine, which will use my Windows Host ...
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Can I have a bridged interface without an IP?

I have 2 NICs: eth0 & eth1 on a host OS which runs some VMs (LXC) under it. The hosts eth0 is connected to a private network and configured as the primary interface. The hosts eth1 is connected ...
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Network in LXC not forwading through a bridge

I've got an LXC container, on the host I've got a bridge between the LXC container and eth0. The LXC container can ping it's Host 10.1.0.5, but can't ping the gateway of 10.1.0.2. The host is able to ...
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What is the difference between virbr# and vnet#?

I am running KVM on RHEL6, and I have created several virtual machines in it. Issuing ifconfig command to the host system command line shows a list of virbr0, virbr1... and vnet0, vnet2... Are they ...
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Why doesn't eth0 get an ip address when set up in a bridge?

I'm trying to understand how dhcp for IPv4 is used with bridging. eth0 is configured to be in br0. This is working just fine but only br0 gets a dhcp lease, while eth0 doesn't. Both are configured ...
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How to get the cloned guest connected to the Internet?

I made a clone of a VM(running a version of Centos 6) on KVM, but the clone wouldn't connect to the Internet. Issuing ifconfig shows no interfaces but the lo. Interestingly, the original system can ...
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Make box only communicate on lan only?

I am running a VM with Debian as the guest OS (I can choose another distro). It has nginx running along with some other software. Some of the software tries to make outgoing connections (for example ...
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Communicate between Ubuntu VM and Windows host

I'm running an Ubuntu VM on a Windows 7 host. I have two questions: I think that on Windows, localhost is a loopback address, and sending packets to it doesn't actually transmit any data on the ...
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VirtualBox guest using Bridged networking unable to obtain DHCP address

I have a computer, called Loki, that works as a virtual machine host and DHCP server. The DHCP daemon is listening on port eth0. Part of /etc/dhcp.conf: subnet 192.168.13.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { ...
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VirtualBox: two network interfaces (NAT and host-only ones) ina a Debian guest on Ubuntu

I created a Debian VM on VirtualBox with two interfaces: a NAT one (for accessing internet) and a host-only one. However, I do not know how to make both interfaces work at the same time. If I the ...
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CentOS doesnt know what the internet is

So I have done my share of investigating this problem... I just recently created an CentOS 6 VM on my LinuxMint box using VirtualBox. I left all the recommended values the same upon creation (8GB ...
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LXC container network/routing issues

I have been experimenting with LXC virtualisation in order to run virtual machines on a dedicated server, but am having trouble setting up the networking properly. I am using veth bridged networking, ...
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CentOS on HyperV - eth0 not in ifconfig?

I've launched a CentOS install in HyperV and assigned a NIC the same way I've done on an Ubuntu VM, however, the device simply isn't picked up. Only my loopback is found by ifconfig. How should I go ...