[et-mgmt-tools] virt-manager: handling of bonding and bridge devices

[Guido Guenther]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 04:34:14PM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote:
> Hi,
> currently virt-manager uses some linux specific heuristics to find out
> if a device is part of a bridge. This immediatley fails if the
> underlying device is not a physical device but e.g. a bonding device.
> 
> Hal doesn't seem to care about either bridges nor bonding devices. I
> wonder where to fix this? Add another linux specific bonding hack
> to determine if a eth devices is part of a bonding device which might be
> part of a bridge? Would be easy enough to do but I wonder if it wouldn't
> be better if hal would export this information in the first place?
Hmm...no comments - would another hack that treats bridges on top of
bond devices be o.k.?
Cheers,
 -- Guido