Re: Statically Defining a Network

On 6/12/24 6:42 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 04:23:33PM GMT, richard.schmitt--- via Users wrote: > > Is there a way to statically define libvirt networks without > > needing to run 'virsh net-define'? > > You need to install the file in /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks instead. > If you want the network to be autostarted, you also need to create a > symlink in /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/autostart that points to the > network XML and has a matching name. Note that if you do this, you'll need to "preprocess" the .xml file by net-define'ing it on some system so that all the necessary elements are there, and then using the resulting xml rather than your original - for example, each network must have a <uuid> element, but that is usually filled in automatically when the network is net-defined.

Also, if you do this keep in mind that the fact that these files are currently in /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks is not a part of libvirt's public API - it could be changed at any time by an update (although this has never happened). The same is true for all other .xml files in /etc/libvirt; only the .conf files are public.