I'm not sure, and I will be giving it a go but was just wondering if anyone could see a reason why i
I'm not sure, and I will be giving it a go but was just wondering if anyone could see a reason why it might not work.

ip -c a on the host and then adding it as a bridged network in virt-manager on the vm?



virbr0 device, which just worked, since that is a bridge device. If that is insufficient for you, then I see there are some maybe relevant google results, e.g. https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-add-network-bridge-with-nmcli-networkmanager-on-linuxvirbr0 is a default device that comes with libvirtip -c avirbr0virbr0