On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:40:07AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > Actually I'm on centos, but I figure it probably does things > similar to fedora. On centos I see a virbr0 bridge that gets > created and used in clients where I pick virtual network. > > I've been trying to understand Xen networking, and since this > virbr0 on centos is doing exactly what I tried unsuccessfully > to do on a debian xen 3.2 system, I thought I'd look and > see how it works. > > Easy to say, hard to do :-). > > I can't find any place that creates the virbr0 bridge. I don't > see an ifcfg file to create it at boot time, and I just replaced > the brctl command with a shell script to log all info about > brctl calls, then invoke the original brctl, and no brctl command > is ever issued to create virbr0! > > Where do it come from? It is the 'default' network shown by: virsh net-list There is no ifcfg file associatwe with it - it is managed directly by libvirt Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
