It’s summer, it’s hot as hell, I am back home from mountains and I’ve plenty of free time. Between a barbecue and the next one I spend my time playing with and learning new stuff: this week new stuff is called QEMU-KVM. Yesterday I also tried XenServer but to be honest I wasn’t impressed, it just look like to be an old version of CentOS minimal install with some custom repos and a fancy GUI. I played with it for just a bunch of hours, but the thing that just performing an installation on a software RAID-1 turned out to be a PITA to say the least is a clear sign that it’s not the best tool for my needs. I swapped a couple of HDDs and in 2 minutes I went back to the already installed CentOS 6.4 with QEMU+KVM. The client machine, for what it matters, is my Fedora 19 x86_64 workstation, virsh and virt-manager the tools I use for remote administration tasks. Installing QEMU-KVM is just a matter of typing yum install libvirtd qemu-kvm bla bla bla, chkconfig libvirtd on and doing a system reboot (better safe than sorry). The tricky part at least for me was setting up a damn bridged network interface, luckily I found this great writeup. I am going to report here what I did to setup a couple of bridged network interfaces on my setup. …