Virtualization With LNST

LNST is targeted primarily at physical machines and testing on real hardware. However, sometimes you don't have the time and/or resources to prepare the desired networking setup. Or perhaps you would like to rapidly test a lot of various network configurations and setups without any manual intervention. These are the times when virtualization comes to play. LNST can work with virtual machines just as well as with your physical ones, and if you meet certain conditions, LNST can handle automatically many more tasks than it ever could with physical machines. This page will explain how to configure LNST to take the full advantage of this feature.

How does it work?

• integrated with libvirt
• can configure the network topology for you

How to make it work for you?

• the machines must be all on the controller
• they must have the controller interface configured properly
• lnst-ctl must be run as root

Adding the Machine to Your Pool

• libvirt_domain
• No test interfaces. Example.
• Your pool can be mixed.
• If your pool is mixed and contains both virtual and physical machines, lnst-ctl will first try to find a matching physical setup. In case it fails to do so, it will try to setup a virtual network based on the recipe requirements.