networking on my second NIC (pci-e card) for only my kvm vm's with macvtap or bridge?

Question

Okay so I have a second 1 gig NIC (PCI-e card) my first is my on board 1 gig NIC, but anyways I would like to have my second NIC for just my kvm VMs but I cant seem to get it working with macvtap or even bridging my second NIC. Every time I start the install of a guest Ubuntu OS I can never get it too contact the internet to finish the install. I would like to be able to use Macvtap but I cant seem to find any documentation for setting it up, so I would just like to try to get a bridge up an running for my VMs to use.

Below is a my /etc/network/interfaces file:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface (On board 1Gb/s NIC)
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
       address 192.168.0.12
       netmask 255.255.255.0
       gateway 192.168.0.1
       dns-nameservers 192.168.0.1

# The secondary network interface (HIRO PCI-E card 1 Gb/s)
#auto eth1
#iface eth1 inet manual

# The bridge interface for my VMs
auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
            address 192.168.0.11
            netmask 255.255.255.0
            gateway 192.168.0.1
            dns-nameservers 192.168.0.1
            bridge_ports eth1
            bridge_stp off
            bridge_fd 0
            bridge_maxwait 0

So now with this set up I get the bridge up a working but when I connect my VM to it with --network bridge:vmbr0 I get into my install and start going through it but then I get hit by a brick wall when its trying to set up the network in the VM. I can get pas this by manually setting up the network stuff but then I cant reach out to the Ubuntu archive when it wants too then I'm again at a halt in the install process.

If it helps here is the command that I use for virt-install:

sudo virt-install \
--name vm01 \
--vcpus=2 \
--ram=2048 \
--disk vol=vms/vm01 \
--network bridge:vmbr0 \
--graphics none \
--console pty,target_type=serial \
--location 'http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/installer-amd64/current/' \
--extra-args 'console=ttyS0,115200n8 serial'

The reason I don't use vnc is because I like that I can do everything from my terminal via SSH.

TL:DR - need to get my second NIC working for my VMs, I think I get it going but then when I'm in my install process for the Guest OS i get stuck when it tries to reach outside on the network. Is there something I'm missing something or a guide to follow? Any help would be completely awesome thank you.