I’m running QEMU/KVM on Fedora Silverblue with Mullvad VPN, and I’m running into a network issue.
When “Local Network Sharing” is disabled in Mullvad, my VMs lose all network access. But as soon as I enable that setting, they regain connectivity.
I want my VMs to have network access without enabling local network sharing, while ensuring that all their traffic is routed through the VPN. The reason I want local network sharing disabled is to prevent other devices on the network from seeing my computer.
I previously used VirtualBox on Linux Mint, and this was never an issue. That said, I really prefer QEMU/KVM over VirtualBox—it’s so much better, and I’m really enjoying using it. I just want to figure out how to get my networking configured properly.
I’ve also tried setting up a bridge connection by going into the virtual machine settings, selecting network options, choosing bridge device, and setting the device name to virbr0, but that didn’t resolve the issue.
I’ll admit, I don’t have a lot of experience with networking or VM networking, so I’m not sure if what I’m trying to do is even possible on QEMU/KVM. If it isn’t, I’d really appreciate it if someone could explain why that’s the case. Any insights or guidance would be super helpful!