On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:50:12AM -0400, Laine Stump wrote: > What you're showing here is the output of "virsh iface-dumpxml" of an > active interface, and is thus the interface's current *status* (i.e. the > functional equivalent of "ip address show"), not its configuration (the > contents of /etc/network/interfaces in your case). > > If you run "virsh iface-dumpxml --inactive" you should get the > configuration of the interface. Ah. It's the same as obtaining the XML of a running domain. I should have thought about that. The --inactive XML is <interface type='vlan' name='enp1s0.181'> <start mode='onboot'/> <vlan tag='181'> <interface name='enp1s0'/> </vlan> </interface> and indeed, libvirt will happily read that back. > One thing to note - the debian port of netcf was written by someone who > is not (as far as I know) a frequent debian user, and was intended as a > jumpstart for someone in the debian community to take over and maintain. > This has never happened. As a Debian Developer, I do apologize for Debian. I know that netcf's Debian backend is a bit rough, which is one of the reason that I usually configure my network interfaces on the host and only give libvirt knowledge about which interfaces do exist, so that I can choose the interfaces for a domain from the drop-down. Does netcf have a systemd-networkd backend? Is this better maintained than the /etc/network/interfaces backend? Can it be selected at run-time? Where can I read up about that? > If so, and if you'd like to send a patch > for netcf to do so, you can send it to netcf-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. I apologize, but the state of netcf in Debian is so bad that I'd need to do more than one patch, and I neither do have the programming knowledge nor the time to do so. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421 _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list