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
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