xen kernel with dom0 in Fedora 10?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Oct 3 18:46:59 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 14:41 -0400, James Ralston wrote:
> To claim "out of the box" support for KVM bridge networking,
> virt-manager has to be able to do all of this automatically.  That
> means that either virt-manager itself needs to know how to turn a
> physical device into a bridged device, or anaconda needs to do this at
> system install time.  (E.g., any physical device configured with a
> fixed IP address is automatically created as a bridge.)

anaconda is certainly not going to do this.  Changing a device to be
bridged has some interesting consequences in a lot of networking
environments.  Not to mention that anaconda is getting out of the
business of the network setup as everything should be being handled by
NetworkManager

Jeremy




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