On 05/13/2012 10:16 AM, bob wrote: > > from what i get it is a problem with libvirt, using a bridge that is > going through a bond....on the same machine. > It must be rather detailed to fix and only a few people seem to use that > route. (like you and me) > I've been running 14 CentOS5 VMs with bridged over active-backup bonded interfaces (actually, over three sets of bonded interfaces) on a single Ubuntu 10.04-LTS server KVM host for a couple of years now. The only real issue I have had is that during a host reboot the 'thundering herd' trying to autostart simultaneously sometimes doesn't reliably start all 14 VMs and I have to manually launch the one or two VMs that fail to launch. Also, I had to roll my own shutdown script because for whatever reason Ubuntu 10.04 thinks shooting running VMs in the head during a shutdown is a better approach than waiting for them to properly shutdown on request. -- Benjamin Franz