How to force all KVM VM traffic out the physical NIC to a switch or appliance?

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Issue

  • How to force all KVM VM traffic out the physical NIC to a switch or appliance?
  • Our security department wants that all the traffic for each vm, goes out of the hypervisor, and comes back. even if it is the same vlan. this as they want to implement some kind of security appliance. to check if the specific traffic is allowed.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • KVM Virtualization

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