Network interfaces are simply attached to a bridge device. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> --- docs/firewall.html.in | 4 ++-- docs/formatdomain.html.in | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/firewall.html.in b/docs/firewall.html.in index bfb5a47b1c..2d55021d9b 100644 --- a/docs/firewall.html.in +++ b/docs/firewall.html.in @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ <li>The virtual network driver <br /><br /> This provides an isolated bridge device (ie no physical NICs - enslaved). Guest TAP devices are attached to this bridge. + attached). Guest TAP devices are attached to this bridge. Guests can talk to each other and the host, and optionally the wider world. <br /><br /> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ </p> <p>Thus the virtual network driver in libvirt was invented. This takes the form of an isolated bridge device (ie one with no physical NICs - enslaved). The TAP devices associated with the guest NICs are attached + attached). The TAP devices associated with the guest NICs are attached to the bridge device. This immediately allows guests on a single host to talk to each other and to the host OS (modulo host IPtables rules). </p> diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in index 07d0fa5c70..3f4d633909 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in @@ -5785,11 +5785,11 @@ <p> Provides a bridge from the VM directly to the LAN. This assumes there is a bridge device on the host which has one or more of the hosts - physical NICs enslaved. The guest VM will have an associated tun device + physical NICs attached. The guest VM will have an associated tun device created with a name of vnetN, which can also be overridden with the <target> element (see <a href="#elementsNICSTargetOverride">overriding the target element</a>). - The tun device will be enslaved to the bridge. The IP range / network + The tun device will be attached to the bridge. The IP range / network configuration is whatever is used on the LAN. This provides the guest VM full incoming & outgoing net access just like a physical machine. </p> -- 2.24.1