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I wanted to setup some VMs using kvm (i had the same problem using xen). The solution a chose to connect my VMs to the internet was to do it through bridging.
My only problem is that my eth0 (main and only ethernet card is connected straight to the Internet. So bridging loses its meaning because I could not choose new IP addresses for my virtual boxes.

The solution: creating a dummy network interface!

With this scenario, i’ll have all my dumUs bridged to the dummy interface (dummy0) and the bridge (br0) NATed through eth0. I hope I’m clear enough. : )

Here is how my /etc/network/interfaces file looks like:
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