Creating the Network for Compute VMs You must run the command that creates the network and the bridge using the br100 specified in the nova.conf file to create the network that the virtual machines use. This example shows the network range using 192.168.100.0/24 as the fixed range for our guest VMs, but you can substitute the range for the network you have available. We're labeling it with "private" in this case. nova-manage network create private --multi_host=T --fixed_range_v4=192.168.100.0/24 --num_networks=1 --network_size=256