On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:06:16PM +0000, Nix wrote: > On 28 Nov 2009, Ian Woodstock spake thusly: > > I've been running with this configuration for many months on dozens of > > hosts. > > > > - Created a bridge (the old fashion way) in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts > > Bridge called br0 with one device eth1. > > > > - Created a VM in virt manager (or edit existing) > > Picked "Shared Physical Device" Device "eth1 (Bridge br0)" in the GUI. > > That's the mystery. I did it (directly via brctl, as it happens, 'cos I'm > making several with particular properties and want to enforce them): > > spindle:/etc/libvirt/qemu# brctl show > bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces > linux-net 8000.06eb4e4985df no dummy0 > [...] > > 52: linux-net: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state > UNKNOWN > link/ether 06:eb:4e:49:85:df brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > inet 192.168.20.1/32 scope global linux-net > > (hm, the state UNKNOWN is sort of bizarre. It's up...) > > (dummy0 is a member of this bridge because I've previously noted that a > bridge with no members at all isn't picked up by the GUI). > > It appears in the GUI, all right: as 'host device linux-net (not bridged)', > greyed out and unselectable. Calling a bridge 'not bridged' is more than > slightly bizarre.
What's confusing it here is that you've not connected a real physical network interface to the bridge - it is expecting to find a ethernet device enslaved, and instead finds 'dummy0'. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
