On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Scott Robbins scottro@nyc.rr.com wrote:
Doesn't bridge creation normally work in the virt-manager GUI? It didn't for me because I made the mistake of trying it in a remote freenx session which bit the dust when it unconfigured the underlying eth? interface and left a bit of a mess. But it looked like it would have worked if run in a local X session.
Not unless one has manually created a bridge. Trying on a machine without a bridge, I saw no option to use one.
The GUI isn't very intuitive, but the approach shown first here: http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Creating_a_CentOS_6_KVM_Networked_Bridge... looked like it should have worked if freenx hadn't crashed underneath it.
In addition, playing with this a bit more, I'm finding it to have poorer graphics than VBox on a couple of Linux desktops (Lubuntu), and it also seems that it doesn't see Mod4. I vaguely remember that being the case over 6 years ago, and actually contributing a patch to the FreeBSD port that fixed it. (Which was just a diff file to the BSD port Makefile).
Once you are past the network setup you are probably better off connecting directly to the guest with vnc/freenx/remote desktop, etc. anyway.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com