Re: network/bridging problems

[Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org>]

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:

Greg has made some excellent explanation and answers.  I wanted to
comment on a few other things.

Ross Boylan wrote:

....

> Arun made a suggestion that
> > Your 'physical' device eth0/eth2 or whatever needs to be added to the
> bridge.
> I believe that is done by the /etc/kvm/kvm-ifup script that is executed
> when I launch the virtual machine.

I think that file must have been removed at some point.  I have
the qemu-kvm package (which owns that file) installed but do not have
that file on my system.  The qemu-kvm.postinst script in the current
package removes the conffile.  So just a note that the file doesn't
exist in recent versions.

I just installed qemu-kvm (1.1.2) on a brand new wheezy system.  Are you saying wheezy doesn't have it, or that it was removed later?

After I get the networking fixed I will likely backport a more recent version, since I'm having other "issues" as well.

Ross

> One thing I struggled with was that qemu-kvm, via the /etc/kvm/kvm-ifup
> script I mentioned above, does some stuff automatically.  Help that is
> written without that in mind tends to include instructions that either
> duplicate or, perhaps, are at cross-purposes with it.

And since that file was removed I assume it was problematic for others
as well.

Bob