[libvirt] iface-list command in virsh

Dev.Atom arnaud.champion at devatom.fr
Tue Apr 20 07:35:00 UTC 2010


Hi,

Yes I know that, and I use the fedora 12 distro, with netcf support and 
libvirt rpm are compiled with netcf support. That's why it works when I am 
root, but only when I am root

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From: "Matthias Bolte" <matthias.bolte at googlemail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 11:08 PM
To: "Dev.Atom" <arnaud.champion at devatom.fr>
Cc: <libvir-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [libvirt] iface-list command in virsh

> 2010/4/19 Dev.Atom <arnaud.champion at devatom.fr>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to list physical interface of a remote tcp host via the C API 
>> and
>> it fails. I have tried to use virsh iface-list in remote TCP connection 
>> and
>> it fails also. I have trying on the libvirt host with my normal account 
>> and
>> it fails also, but when I connect under root account on the libvirt host,
>> iface-list works. Any clue ?
>>
>
> The current interface driver used in combination with libvirtd is
> nefcf [1] based. If your libvirt is compiled without netcf then there
> will be no interface support for QEMU, Xen and so on.
>
> You'll also need to have a distro (e.g. Fedora) that supports netcf or
> is supported by netcf, because netcf handles the interface
> configuration files and those are in different locations of have other
> distro dependent differences.
>
> [1] https://fedorahosted.org/netcf/
>
> Matthias 





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