Here is the feedback I got from the network-manager mailing list: On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 09:18 +0100, Franck Routier (perso) wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm using Ubuntu and just upgraded to (still in development) Vivid. > Now I see that network-manager handles my virbr0 bridge (libvirt), which > it didn't before.
NM will recognize and "manage" all network interfaces, but that does not mean that NM actually touches the interfaces. If the interface already has a configuration, NM simply assumes the existing configuration and waits for you to tell it to do something. That's a difference from older versions of NM (0.9.8 and earlier) where NM was mostly ignorant of existing configuration. We know that NM 0.9.10 still has a few edge cases where it touches interfaces and shouldn't, but almost all of those have already been fixed in NM 1.0 and later. Dan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1432599 Title: Network-manager tries to manage virbr0, which it should not Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in network-manager package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: Since a recent upgrade in vivid, nm is trying to manage virbr0. This results in my main machine not getting a real IP address on eth0, and virtual machines not being able to use the network. This is probably related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166199 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: network-manager 0.9.10.0-4ubuntu11 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-9.9-generic 3.19.1 Uname: Linux 3.19.0-9-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Mar 16 12:36:07 2015 IfupdownConfig: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-13 (92 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1) IpRoute: default via 10.0.0.1 dev eth0 proto static metric 1024 10.0.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.75 192.168.111.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.111.8 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1 NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) http_proxy: http://localhost:8118/ nmcli-nm: Error: command ['nmcli', '-f', 'all', 'nm'] failed with exit code 2: Error: Object 'nm' is unknown, try 'nmcli help'. no_proxy: localhost,127.0.0.0/8,::1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1432599/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp