On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 09:28:08AM GMT, Laine Stump wrote: > On 6/12/24 6:42 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 04:23:33PM GMT, richard.schmitt--- via Users wrote: > > > Is there a way to statically define libvirt networks without > > > needing to run 'virsh net-define'? > > > > You need to install the file in /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks instead. > > If you want the network to be autostarted, you also need to create a > > symlink in /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/autostart that points to the > > network XML and has a matching name. > > Note that if you do this, you'll need to "preprocess" the .xml file by > net-define'ing it on some system so that all the necessary elements are > there, and then using the resulting xml rather than your original - for > example, each network must have a <uuid> element, but that is usually filled > in automatically when the network is net-defined. That used to be true, but after [1] that's no longer the case. As long as the XML file you drop into the directory is roughly equivalent to src/network/default.xml.in everything is going to work just the way you'd expect it to. > Also, if you do this keep in mind that the fact that these files are > currently in /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks is not a part of libvirt's public > API - it could be changed at any time by an update (although this has never > happened). The same is true for all other .xml files in /etc/libvirt; only > the .conf files are public. Fair disclaimer. [1] https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/EZNHYPCCLSEECOJKGN5LGLPB6367MPVU/ -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
