Are there any plans to include possibility to configure bridged networks in libvirt? I see the need to be able to actually be able create vlans on physical devices and the bridge the vlan, which I guess is a very normal case for isolating network traffic between different guests. I would be great if it would be possible to both create vlans on physical devices and then also create bridged network connected to any available network (physical/bonded/vlan)

On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 10:00 +0100, Chris Lalancette wrote: > Henrik Persson E wrote: > > Are there any plans to include possibility to configure bridged networks > > in libvirt? > > I see the need to be able to actually be able create vlans on physical > > devices and the bridge the vlan, which I guess is a very normal case for > > isolating network traffic between different guests. > > > > I would be great if it would be possible to both create vlans on > > physical devices and then also create bridged network connected to any > > available network (physical/bonded/vlan) > > This is functionality we are actually missing for ovirt as well. I had done a > proof of concept patch a while ago (you can search the libvirt archives), but it > wasn't comprehensive enough. In particular, it could deal with putting a > physical device into a bridge, but didn't make any provision for bonding and > VLANs, both of which are needed to have a correct solution. It needs some > thought about the XML design, and then it can probably be implemented. I see this stuff as system configuration and, as such, should be handled by e.g. NetworkManager: