On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:46:59PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:41 -0400, James Ralston wrote: > > To claim "out of the box" support for KVM bridge networking, > > virt-manager has to be able to do all of this automatically. That > > means that either virt-manager itself needs to know how to turn a > > physical device into a bridged device, or anaconda needs to do this at > > system install time. (E.g., any physical device configured with a > > fixed IP address is automatically created as a bridge.) > > anaconda is certainly not going to do this. Changing a device to be > bridged has some interesting consequences in a lot of networking > environments. Not to mention that anaconda is getting out of the > business of the network setup as everything should be being handled by > NetworkManager I wouldn't expect anaconda todo this either - there's simply too many complications with bridging to expect any tool to automatically get it right. Ultimately networkmanager needs a capability optionally enable sharing of a physical device between host & guest. It is getting much closer to being ready for this type of capability with its recent releases. 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 :| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
