[virt-tools-list] virt-manager does not detect bridge br0

Gonzalo Marcote Peña gonzalomarcote at gmail.com
Fri Jun 18 10:15:00 UTC 2010


Thank you.
I am going to install the version 0.8.4.
It is very helpful to create and manage VM's complety with virt-manager from
another computer (or laptop) so you can keep the server without installing
X.

Regards.

2010/6/17 Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>

> On 06/17/2010 01:10 PM, Laurent Léonard wrote:
> > Le mercredi 16 juin 2010 14:19:33, Gonzalo Marcote Peña a écrit :
> >> Hello.
> >> I have one server without X with KVM installed.
> >> I configured one bridge network to eth0.
> >> And it works ok.
> >>
> >> Now i want to create manage my VM's form another PC in the network (via
> ssh
> >> connection), so i have installed virt-manager version 0.8.2
> >> The problem is thet when i want to create on VM there is no option to
> >> select the 'br0'' interface form the server in the combo.
> >> It only appears 'any physical device'.
> >>
> >> ¿How can i configure it to show this option in virt-manager to create
> the
> >> VM correctly?
> >>
> >> Thank you
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > You have to update to Virt-manager 0.8.4 if you want to use a bridge that
> you
> > created manually. See the 0.8.4 changelog:
> > http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
> > "Option to manually specifying a bridge name, if bridge isn't detected"
> >
>
> Kind of. I think I'll make this into a FAQ entry:
>
> Why doesn't virt-manager show my bridge device?
>
> If using version 0.8.0 or earlier, virt-manager can only enumerate
> bridges if connected to a hypervisor on your local machine. This
> detection requires HAL to be installed. This detection is a best effort
> attempt and is not perfect, so YMMV.
>
> If using version 0.8.1 to 0.8.3, virt-manager will attempt to use
> libvirt interface APIs for bridge enumeration. This can work for both
> local and remote hypervisor connections. In order for this to work, you
> need:
>
> - To be running on a redhat based distro. netcf, the library which
> facilitates remote interface listing, currently (as of June 2010) only
> knows how to deal with redhat style network scripts.
> - libvirt 0.7.0 or later, running on local host
> - libvirt 0.7.0 or later running on the hypervisor host (maybe be the
> local as well), compiled against netcf.
> - netcf installed on the remote host.
>
> If using version 0.8.4 or later, virt-manager allows manually entering a
> bridge name if the app isn't listing your desired bridge device for
> whatever reason.
>
> But basically, update to 0.8.4 and you should be able to do what you want.
>
> - Cole
>
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