On 04/17/2010 09:38 PM, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
Hi list,
this probably isn't a completely libvirt-specific question but I'll try anyway. Please ignore if it is too much off-topic.
On an Ubuntu (9.10) virtualisation host, running KVM and libvirt and several guests (Debian, Ubuntu, Windows Server 2003) in a bridged network fashion [1,2] I noticed that performing
/etc/init.d/networking restart
on the host completely cuts off all guests from the network. I have to manually shutdown and restart (virsh shutdown GUEST && virsh start GUEST, a mere reboot doesn't suffice) them to get them onto the network again. Obviously that's not ideal.
Is this the expected behaviour? Can I somehow re-establish guest network connectivity without shutting down the guest first? Is my setup somehow wrong or do I expect too much?
Unfortunately, that is the expected behavior. If you do: # brctl show # /etc/init.d/networking restart # brctl show You'll see that the list of interfaces attached to the bridge is different before and after. The problem is that as libvirt starts a guest, it plugs the virtual interface into the bridge device. When you do a networking restart, all of those interfaces are lost from the bridge, and there is no way currently to re-attach them. It's probably fix-able, but non-trivial; libvirt would have to be notified by the system (via D-bus?) that the bridge was restarted, and then it would have to re-plug the interfaces on the "new" bridge. -- Chris Lalancette