Re: virt-manager and qemu: virtual networking missing

[Michael Paoli <michael.paoli@berkeley.edu>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM Charles Curley
<charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:41:18 +0100
> john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> wrote:
>
> > When the host is installed, I only use the wireless interface on my
> > laptop. Installing "libvirt-daemon-system" was enough for virbr0 to
> > be created and virtually bridging my wireless interface.
> > This set up uses NAT.
>
> I have libvirt-daemon-system on three systems. The default network,
> named "default", was created automatically on all three. It uses
> interface virbr0. What I am seeing is that when a system is using
> Wi-Fi, virbr0 is not created.
>
> So why do you get it and I don't?

Most Wi-Fi hardware can't operate in bridge(d) mode.