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libVirt on Hetzner

April 26, 2017

After many years of using Hetzner as a server provider, and having rented from them multiple servers for many reasons, I decided to rent a server with 128Gb of RAM to do some tests with many (virtualized) machines on top of CentOS.

As it often happens, hosting providers put in place a lot of security measurements that sometimes make doing simple stuff more complex. The first approach I tried was using the (only) Ethernet interface as a bridged interface, but that did not brought me very far. Speaking with the support they pointed out that it was impossible in my setup, so I moved to the second option: the broute.

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