On 01/18/2012 05:49 PM, Tait Clarridge wrote: > Create the 8 bridges that you need and go from there, you should be able > to assign them in Virtual Machine Manager to the VMs. Hello Tait, I'm learning about ethernet bridges and how it is applied to virtual networking. It seems that, in the past, after you created the virtual bridge (br0, br1 etc) you had to create the taps with tunctl and THEN you assigned those taps to your VMs. And now it appears that virt-manager doesn't need these taps and you can simply point the VM to the proper bridge. My question is: are the taps being used behind the scenes (is it something libvirt does for us) or are the tap interfaces obsolete now? Thanks, Jorge