Am 02.02.2013 16:58, schrieb James Hogarth: >> Isn't the rhel way to install NetworkManager anyway? Because then you can > forget all your ifcfg scripts anyway because they will be overwritten by NM. >> At least that was the cause when i had NetworkManager installed... (That > was why i removed it if i remember correctly) >> Does anyone have a good link on that subject? >> >> IBM says that tap interfaces are best practice: >> > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxinfo/v3r0m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fliaat%2Fliaatkvmvirsh.htm >> My RHCSA course material doesn't even touch the subject (At least not > until now). The Red Had documentation is only focused on using virt-manager > and thereby explains not much in that regards. > Of course RHCSA doesn't touch this subject... That's very basic - RHCE > doesn't cover this either in fact (or at least didn't 2 years back and I > doubt that has changed). > > Don't look at IBM's stuff when you are using RHEL - always check > docs.redhat.com - admittedly from the point you are at you may not know the > actual question you need to ask anyway... > > NetworkManager doesn't support bridging (in rhel anyway) so you need to > remove nm and use the regular network service configuring ifcfg > appropriately to make all this work. > > Here's the relevant documentation you should be using for creating the > bridge in the first place: > > https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/s2-networkscripts-interfaces_network-bridge.html > > With that working it will then show as an interface to select when you > create a vm. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thank you very much! The link you sent me was exactly what i needed. I just didn't think about searching for bridging outside of the vm documentation. Silly me! Thanks for the advice!