On 9/17/21 19:04, Jim Fehlig wrote: > On 9/17/21 10:46, Laine Stump wrote: >> On 9/17/21 7:11 AM, Michael Ströder wrote: >>> When restarting libvirtd itself I see the following syslog warning >>> message: >>> >>> libvirtd: 5733: warning : netcfIfaceRegister:1287 : Failed to initialize >>> libnetcontrol. Management of interface devices is disabled >> >> That's unrelated and unimportant. Most probably the libvirt APIs >> affected by that have *never* operated properly on openSUSE (it uses a >> "netcf-lookalike" that, AFAIU, accepts the same XML as netcf and has >> some of the same functions, but was never really "complete", and is >> probably just as much abandonware as netcf (which was abandoned, by >> me, last year)), and it's likely that you never had the libnetcontrol >> package installed at all, and have always had this warning but just >> didn't notice it until now. > > On SUSE this generally means NetworkManager is being used on the host > instead of wicked. Yes, this host (laptop) uses NetworkManager. > If the host is using wicked, most of libvirt's > interface management APIs work, but with some limitations as you note. Ah, good to know that there are differences. On my other host I'm using wicked. Ciao, Michael.
