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

For certain applications, we want libvirt to be able to configure host network interfaces in a variety of ways; currently, we are most interested in teaching libvirt how to set up ordinary ethernet interfaces, bridges, bonding and vlan's.

3. Implementation ================= Configuring network interfaces is highly OS and OS-variant/distro dependant. There are at least two different ways how libvirt can go about modifying the host to create interfaces: 1. Modify the system's network setup scripts (ifcfg-XXX on RH) 2. Directly use the system's network utilities like ifconfig 3. Rely on NetworkManager (not an option right now, as NM doesn't know about bridges and the like)