[libvirt] KVM doesn't send an arp announce after live migrating a domain

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Aug 25 11:42:37 UTC 2010


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:38:25PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 08/25/2010 02:36 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >
> >>Can't libvirt also create a non-NAT bridge?  Looks like it would prevent
> >>a lot of manual work and opportunity for misconfiguration.
> >Yes, it can on latest Fedora/RHEL6, using the netcf library. This is the
> >new 'virsh iface-XXX' command set (and equivalent APIs). I've not updated
> >the docs to cover this functionality yet though. It also does bonding,
> >and vlans, etc
> 
> Great.
> 
> Is virt-manager able to drive this?  it would be great if you could 
> drive everything from there.

Yes, it does now, under the menu Edit -> Host Details -> Network Interfaces
NetworkManager has also finally learnt to ignore ifcfg-XXX files which
have a BRIDGE= setting in them, so it shouldn't totally trash your guest
bridge networking if you leave NM running.

Regards,
Daniel
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