[CentOS] NetworkManager substitute??

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 07:41:59PM -0400, SilverTip257 wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote:
> 
> > On 28.10.2013 17:52, Fred Smith wrote:
> > > I'm investigating how to setup KVM so I can run VMs without having to
> > > use
> > > VirtualBox or VMware, or etc.
> > >
> > > All the HOWTOs I see tell you to disable NM.
> >
> 
> There is no reason to disable NM entirely.
> 
> But you can disable NM per interface with:
> NM_CONTROLLED="no"

Yes, so I've learned today. thanks for the tip though.

> I've seen it is common practice to disable NM on bridge and other
> interfaces at times.
> 
> I expect this excerpt from [0] is why I've seen NM disabled "per interface"
> in various write-ups.
> And in my case I never needed or wanted NM fiddling with most interfaces on
> my headless servers. ;)

Sure. makes sense. But I'm hoping to use this on my main (home) desktop
machine, so I need to still have desktop-likke services available.

> 
> 
>    - The NM_CONTROLLED=no should be added to the Ethernet interface to
>    prevent *NetworkManager* from altering the file. It can also be added to
>    the bridge configuration file in case future versions of
> *NetworkManager* support
>    bridge configuration.
> 

thanks for the info!

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