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From: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Shahar Klein <shaharklein@yahoo.com>
Cc: libvir-list@redhat.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:02:59 PM
Subject: Re: [libvirt] hooking a physical nic to a bridge with net-create

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:52:25AM -0700, Shahar Klein wrote:
>
>
> Hi
>
> I trying to set up a network configuration using libvirt
>
> The setup is:
>
> 1. a VM using virtio using a tap device connected to a bridge device
> 2. on the host side eth0 added to the same bridge device(without ip)
>
> using libvirt application (say virsh) I want to launch this set up:
>
> virsh net-create for the second part
> virsh create for the first part(tap, virtio, vm etc)
>
> I can set the first part(vm, tap, virtio) using the domain xml
> but I'm also interested in XMLing the second part and net-create it.
> I tried but only suceeded in creating the bridge
>
> Is it possible? am I missing somthing?

This isn't what the net-XXX commnads is for. The functionality you are
after is in process of being implemented and will appear as iface-XXX
commands (for host interface managment)


For more info about libvirt networking, read this page

http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking

Daniel
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