On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Doesn't bridge creation normally work in the virt-manager GUI? It
>> didn't for me because I made the mistake of trying it in a remote
>> freenx session which bit the dust when it unconfigured the underlying
>> eth? interface and left a bit of a mess. But it looked like it would
>> have worked if run in a local X session.
>
> Not unless one has manually created a bridge. Trying on a machine without
> a bridge, I saw no option to use one.
The GUI isn't very intuitive, but the approach shown first here:
http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Creating_a_CentOS_6_KVM_Networked_Bridge_Interface
looked like it should have worked if freenx hadn't crashed underneath
it.
> In addition, playing with this a bit more, I'm finding it to have poorer
> graphics than VBox on a couple of Linux desktops (Lubuntu), and it also
> seems that it doesn't see Mod4. I vaguely remember that being the case
> over 6 years ago, and actually contributing a patch to the FreeBSD port
> that fixed it. (Which was just a diff file to the BSD port Makefile).
Once you are past the network setup you are probably better off
connecting directly to the guest with vnc/freenx/remote desktop, etc.
anyway.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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