On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:06:13AM +0000, Nix wrote: > On 26 Nov 2009, Daniel P. Berrange verbalised: > > > If you don't want libvirt to create the bridge + setup IPtables rules > > then don't use the net-XXX commands / XML. That functionality is > > not there for pointing libvirt to existing bridge devices. > > Ah. All comes clear. > > > If you already have a bridge configured, then just point the guest > > directly at that bridge by name. > > That seems to work: I thought it didn't, but that was my DHCP server > deciding to go catatonic on me. > > The only remaining obvious problem is virt-manager-related, I think: > this log spam: > > Nov 27 00:04:38 spindle err: 00:04:38.977: error : virLibConnError:383 : this function is not supported by the hypervisor: virConnectNumOfInterfaces > Nov 27 00:04:38 spindle err: 00:04:38.977: error : virLibConnError:383 : this function is not supported by the hypervisor: virConnectNumOfDefinedInterfaces > > Emitting this *once a second* seems a bit... extreme. Can't it try once > and give up? libvirtd always logs all errors, so if you want these to go away, then virt-manager will have to stop issuing these APi calls. Best file a bug against virt-manager about this, or raise it on the virt-manager mailing list (virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx) Regards, 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@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list