On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:52:34AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
On 10/18/2017 04:48 PM, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to give libvirt knowlegde of a VLAN interface that is
> configured by a different means and not by libvirt. To figure out the
> syntax, I created a VLAN interface through virt-manager and dumped out
> the XML:
>
> <interface type='vlan' name='ens3.180'>
> <protocol family='ipv6'>
> <ip address='2a01:4f8:150:436c::55:100' prefix='64'/>
> <ip address='fe80::5054:ff:fe30:e0d1' prefix='64'/>
> </protocol>
> <link speed='4294967295' state='up'/>
> <vlan tag='180'>
> <interface name='ens3'/>
> </vlan>
> </interface>
>
> I then removed the Interface in virt-manager and tried to have libvirt
> read back its own XML.
>
> [12/784]mh@testsid85:~ $ virsh iface-dumpxml ens3.180 > ens3.180.xml
> [13/785]mh@testsid85:~ $ virsh iface-define ens3.180.xml
> error: Failed to define interface from ens3.180.xml
> error: XML error: could not get interface XML description: XML invalid - Expecting
an element start, got nothing
>
> What is going on here? How do I define a VLAN interface via XML?
This is weird. However, I'm unable to reproduce with the latest libvirt.
What's your version? Have you tried the latest one?
I have Debian unstable, libvirt 3.8.0.
Greetings
Marc
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