KVM VM traffic over host's Tinc VPN

[Rob Townley]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Eric Wiggins <ewiggi2 at lsu.edu> wrote:
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> Hello Tinc list!
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> I'm trying to set up a Tinc VPN between two KVM host machines so that a VM on one host can communicate with a VM on the other host. While I do have a good bit of experience with virtualization, I'm not a particularly savvy network guy, so this is proving to be a pretty big challenge.
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> Requirements:
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> * ALL VM network traffic must be secure.
> * VMs on one host must be able to communicate with VMs on other hosts.
> * As I'm using another group's images for the VMs and will have no control over the VMs once they're up and running, all configuration needs to happen on the hosts and be invisible to the VMs.
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> My test setup:
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> * Two RHEL6.2 hosts, each running KVM with one VM set up on each host.
> * Tinc set up on both hosts.

Forgive me for kinda taking this offtopic.
i love tinc.  It would be great to have it incorporated directly into
many enterprise scenarios, especially cloud computing
What you are trying to do is built into most if not all cloud platforms.
Consider a cloud platform such as Eucalyptus, OpenStack, nebula, .....
   Look at screenshots of HybridFox to manage your VMs running on your
own private cloud.
Since your hosts are redhat,
http://www.redhat.com/about/events-webinars/webinars/2012-07-11-building-an-open-hybrid-cloud-technical-review