Re: F20 beta virt-manager cannot create bridged network interface

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On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 15:29 -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 01/27/2014 03:13 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 10:04 -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > 
> >> This is all news to me, please put all the details in a bug report and CC me.
> >> You can start with filing it against libvirt and we can triage from there.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> What exactly *IS* our official setup for Bridging support??
> >>>
> >>
> >> What was it ever, really? You could do it with virt-manager but that could
> >> also fall over in multiple ways. You could do it with sysconfig scripts but
> >> that required stopping NetworkManager which is basically impossible on a
> >> modern desktop.
> > 
> > It's not at all difficult, AFAIK. My 'vmhost' machine which runs all my
> > production server VMs uses the old 'network' service (and has bridging
> > set up the really-old-skool way). I haven't done any ninja magic to turn
> > off NetworkManager, I haven't even removed it. All I did, years ago,
> > was:
> > 
> > systemctl disable NetworkManager.service
> > systemctl enable network.service
> > 
> > that's worked, ever since, across multiple updates, upgrades and system
> > restarts. I've never had a problem.
> > 
> > Is there some problem I'm unaware of which means it's not this easy to
> > turn off NM in some situation that doesn't match mine?
> > 
> 
> Do you use that machine for desktop usage (I said 'modern desktop' above)? In
> the few times I've ever tried to stop networkmanager with gnome shell, 'bad
> things happened'. Heard the same thing from others as well.

Ah, no, indeed. In that case you might need to mask
NetworkManager.service instead of just disabling it, I think - I haven't
tried it for a while. Or remove NM entirely - I think you can do that.
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