[libvirt] device type 'interface' cannot be attached

[Gerry Reno]

Gerry Reno wrote:
> Gerry Reno wrote:
>> I'm using libvirt 0.6.2 on F11 x86_64 and CPU supports hw 
>> virtualization.  When I try to do 'virsh attach-interface ...' I get 
>> an error that the function is not supported by the hypervisor device 
>> type 'interface' cannot be attached.  Is this command not supported?  
>> Or is there something special I need to do?  I found it in the man page.
>>
>
>
> I have a private network declared now, thank you Mark.
>
> And here is how I am trying to attach an interface:
> # cat PRIVBR0.xml
>  <network>
>    <name>PRIVBR0</name>
>    <bridge name='privbr0'/>
>    <ip address='172.19.0.1' netmask='255.255.0.0'>
>    </ip>
>  </network>
>
> # virsh net-list --all
> Name                 State      Autostart
> -----------------------------------------
> PRIVBR0              active     yes
> default              active     no
>
> # virsh attach-interface CC  bridge privbr0
> error: this function is not supported by the hypervisor: device type 
> 'interface' cannot be attached
>
> # grep emulator  CC.xml
>    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
>
>
> I tried the 'attach-interface' both while the domain is running and 
> while shutdown.  Neither works.
>
> Can anyone see something wrong in what I'm doing here or the reason 
> that 'attach-interface' is failing?
>
> -Gerry
>
I have also tried this as 'attach-device' with the same result:

# cat INTERFACE_PRIVBR0.xml
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <mac address='00:0c:01:41:50:01'/>
      <source bridge='privbr0'/>
    </interface>

# virsh attach-device CC INTERFACE_PRIVBR0.xml
error: Failed to attach device from INTERFACE_PRIVBR0.xml
error: this function is not supported by the hypervisor: device type 
'interface' cannot be attached

I opened the following bug on this issue:  
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537688


-Gerry