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:
We install libvirt in a AlmaLinux 9 Kickstart file. The version of libvirt we are using is 10.0.0.
What we'd like to do is to statically define a network in the kickstart file without having to run `virsh net-define`. In other words, we had hoped that by installing a <network>.xml file in /usr/share/libvirt/networks, that that network would be recognized by libvirt the first time the system is booted. This does not appear to be the case.
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.