How to change the ip address and DHCP range assigned for "virbr0" interface inside KVM in RHEL6?
Issue
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Using KVM / virsh when running under RHEL a virbr0 is used for NAT traffic between the guest and the running OS on the RHEL server.
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Is there a way to configure virbr0 to be on a particular network, rather than the default of the 192.168.122/24 network.
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release; ifconfig virbr0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:CA:D7:3E
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.
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KVM virtualization.
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