Assign a static IP to a VM.

[brpaz]

Hello.

I want to configure a static IP address in my VM, so that I can access that VM from the host machine, via that ip. (Ex: for running a webserver).

Quickemu doesn´t seem to allow assigning static IP address to a VM. After some reading, I think I will need to have a network bridge, but networking is really not my strongest area and don´t want to break my networking.

I tried the following:

sudo nmcli connection add type bridge con-name br-qemu ifname br-qemu
sudo nmcli connection modify br-qemu ipv4.addresses 192.168.100.1/24 ipv4.method manual
sudo nmcli connection up br-qemu

and then set: vm_net="bridge,br=br-qemu in my VM config, but it´s not working.

my bridge in the host is in down state, and the interface is not added to the vm.

22: br-qemu: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 1e:f6:d3:9e:c0:59 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

This might probably not quickemu specific and more of a network issue, still maybe there is a better way to do this, that´s why I am asking this question here.