Re: [libvirt] RFC: configuring host interfaces with libvirt

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 09:00:16AM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > The thing is, this has to integrate with existing configuration - > there's no point in futzing about with "ip link set eth0 ..." if the > user has configured eth0 with NetworkManager or the distro's networking > scripts. Yes, I think option 2 is pretty much doomed to fail. If you don't integrate with the native distro mgmt scripts, or with NetworkManager then you are forever going to have a fight between who's managing what. You can already see this with Xen's network-bridge script which cna be considered option 2. If you restart your network using the distro scripts, after Xen's network-bridge script has run, then you end up wwith a completely trashed host network.