Press ENTER before the timeout to accept the new configuration Warning: Stopping rvice, but it can still be activated by: The command that works better for this, is netplay try which looks like this: $ sudo netplan try The downside to this command is if your config is syntactically correct, but breaks networking, you’ll need to console into your Mac mini (read, more displays & keyboards) to fix this. This command will apply the netplan config, unless there is a syntax error. To apply this configuration, we could run netplan apply The name of the bridge, br15 is our choice, but we will want to use a name that makes sense. Or if we want to keep using DHCP: # This is the network config written by 'subiquity' To create our bridge, we update this file to look like this: # This is the network config written by 'subiquity' If you configured your VM host to use DHCP, it may look closer to this: # This is the network config written by 'subiquity' This file is /etc/netplan/00-installer-config.yaml # This is the network config written by 'subiquity' Netplan can do a lot more than just build bridges for us, so definitely cehck out some of the examples on their site.īelow is the original Netplan file, generated by the initial Ubuntu install on our host. With Netplan, we are able to define networking on our host using YAML, which is awesome.

Ubuntu 20.04 (and 18.04) make this very very easy for us to do this, with something called Netplan. In our case, we are going to create a network bridge, that will allow us to “plug” our VMs directly into the same network our VM host is plugged into. There are a ton of ways to go about this we could create a local network, create network definitions via virsh, etc. Configure the Network Bridgeīefore we get started deploying VMs to our new KVM host, we need to get networking configured for our VMs. This part we will cover the configuration of a network bridge, and installing a Linux guest.

This is part 2 of a series for getting KVM/Libvirt up and running on a Mac mini. Getting Ubuntu & KVM installed on a Mac mini for virtualization.

Ubuntu for mac mini