While requiring more effort to set up, it provides full shell access to the domains.
Since you will be using ssh a lot to login to these machines, it is recommended to either put their names in /etc/hosts:
# /etc/hosts entries for libreswan test suite
192.1.2.45 west
192.1.2.23 east
192.0.3.254 north
192.1.3.209 road
192.1.2.254 nic
or add entries to .ssh/config such as:
Host west
Hostname 192.1.2.45
If you wish to be able to ssh into all the VMs created without using a password, add your ssh public key to testing/baseconfigs/all/etc/ssh/authorized_keys. This file is installed as /root/.ssh/authorized_keys on all VMs
Using ssh becomes easier if you are running ssh-agent (you probably are) and your public key is known to the virtual machine. This command, run on the host, installs your public key on the root account of the guest machines west. This assumes that west is up (it might not be, but you can put this off until you actually need ssh, at which time the machine would need to be up anyway). Remember that the root password on each guest machine is "swan".
ssh-copy-id root@west
You can use ssh-copy for any VM. Unfortunately, the key is forgotten when the VM is restarted.
Limitations:
- this only works with the default east, et.al. (it does not work with $(KVM_PREFIX) and/or multiple test directories)