testdrive instances can't network to each other

[sam tygier]

if i start 2 instances of test drive, they seem to each be on independent virtual networks. they both show in ifconfig
inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
and even identical MAC address and IPV6 addresses

it would be great if each vm would appear to be on the same local network so that it is possible the test interaction between them.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Confirming the bug, marking wishlist.

I have a solution to this, invovling bridging. However, it requires that kvm be launched with root priv's (or at least the bridging script be launched with root priv's). This isn't ideal, so I can't quite commit that to the branch yet.

However, I see your point and agree that it would be nice.

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

could their be a --lan option. if you run 'testdive --lan' it will tell you that it needs root privileges, if you run 'sudo testdrive --lan' it works. and it would need to make sure it did not make any of the files it creates to be owned by root.