[fedora-virt] Network bridges in F12 beta

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Nov 4 17:28:16 UTC 2009


On 11/04/2009 12:20 PM, Steve Bonneville wrote:
> Cole Robinson wrote:
>> On 11/04/2009 04:44 AM, Andr?s Garc?a wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I think I read somewhere that with Fedora 12 there was going to be a way 
>>> to configure
>>> virtual network bridges automagically.
>>>
>>> I have looked for it in virt-manager and network manager but it doesn't 
>>> seem to be there,
>>> so I guess my memory is fooling me, right?
>>>
>>
>> Libvirt can configure bridges in f12, however it requires manually
>> crafting XML and has no GUI support yet, so it is probably easiest to
>> use the instructions you post below.
> 
> Do you have a reference to how the bridges would be crafted in libvirt
> XML?  Which version of libvirt is required?
> 

You need libvirt 0.7.0 or later. As for docs, virtually nonexistent at
the moment, your best bet is to check out the netcf source and take a
look at the tests/ directory:

https://fedorahosted.org/netcf/

- Cole




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