I am trying to configure a QEMU setup with several VMs that talk to each other (e.g. a LDAP server on a VM that provides SSH authentication to other internal VMs).
All these VMs are user mode and connected via -net socket and all of them have a virtual MAC address. No contact with the external world save for an open SSH port (hostfwd).
My question is: is it possible to configure the internal DHCP server (the one made available by QEMU) to supply IPs and names to the machines? Also and simultaneously, is there any way for the internal DNS resolver to supply lookups for these DHCP names?
I am aware of the hostname option on -net user, but that only solves part of the problem (nothing appears on the DNS server).
For example, if VM 1 has a hostname=ldap, the internal DNS server will not provide a resolution for that (nslookup ldap will have no results).
Thanks
