[libvirt] hooking a physical nic to a bridge with net-create
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Wed Jun 24 09:02:59 UTC 2009
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 07:52:25AM -0700, Shahar Klein wrote:
>
>
> Hi
>
> I trying to set up a network configuration using libvirt
>
> The setup is:
>
> 1. a VM using virtio using a tap device connected to a bridge device
> 2. on the host side eth0 added to the same bridge device(without ip)
>
> using libvirt application (say virsh) I want to launch this set up:
>
> virsh net-create for the second part
> virsh create for the first part(tap, virtio, vm etc)
>
> I can set the first part(vm, tap, virtio) using the domain xml
> but I'm also interested in XMLing the second part and net-create it.
> I tried but only suceeded in creating the bridge
>
> Is it possible? am I missing somthing?
This isn't what the net-XXX commnads is for. The functionality you are
after is in process of being implemented and will appear as iface-XXX
commands (for host interface managment)
For more info about libvirt networking, read this page
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking
Daniel
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