On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:13:18AM +0000, David Lutterkort wrote:
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)
I must be missing something here ... how can libvirt modify stuff inside the guest? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top