Re: [libvirt] libvirt not wanting to read back its own interface XML
Hi Guido,
I didn't mean to accuse Debian of doing a bad job with netcf.
On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 09:26:31AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 02:41:31PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 01:37:45PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > Aha! the thing is, you're using netcf backend while I'm using the udev
> > one. This error message comes from netcf. It's a netcf's bug. CCing
> > Laine who should know more.
>
> Where can I read up about the different backends available? Is it a
> compile-time setting or can I configure that on my system?
>
> Actually, I'm doing the configuration outside of libvirt anyway (with
> systemd-networkd), I just want the interface to be in virt-manager's
> selection dropdown, so I don't care too much about netcf.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?archive=0;dist=unstable;ord...
doesn't look that bad. Not following includes is troublesome (#875762) but
shouldn't be too hard to fix. Can you file bugs for other issues you're
seeing? This would make it simpler to decide whether we disable netcf
support or fix the issues that are there.
It is just that I have configuring my networks in special ways for
nearly two decades, using the "manual" method of ifupdown way before it
was officially introduced into the Debian packages (#88948, sic!), and
am therefore used to other packages doing network configuration not
playing around pretty well on my systems.
And I have stopped using ifupdown entirely with jessie, and have
migrated over to systemd-networkd. My expertise with current ifupdown is
to limited to be of any use.
I would love to see systemd-networkd support for netcf, though.
Greetings
Marc
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