[CentOS] KVM and DHCP

Fri Mar 14 14:53:18 UTC 2014
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:16 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
>
>
> When creating a new machine under advanced options all I see on the drop down
> menu is the following:
>
> * Virtual network default 'NAT' <- selected
> * Host eth0 (Not bridged) <- greyed - not selectable
> * Host eth1 (Not bridged) <- greyed - not selectable
> * Host lo (Not bridged) <- greyed - not selectable
> * Host virbr0 (Not bridged) <- greyed - not selectable
> * Host vnet0 (Not bridged) <- greyed - not selectable
> * Host vnet1 (Not bridged) <- greyed - not selectable
> * Host vnet2 (Not bridged) <- greyed - not selectable
> * Host vnet0 (Not bridged) <- greyed - not selectable
> Specify shared device name <- black - selectable
>
>
> If I select <Specify shared device name> then, and only then, a text box with
> the label 'Bridge name:' appears.
>
> My memory is always suspect but I seem to recall that the defined bridge, br0'
> was explicitly listed as an available choice in a previous version of
> virt-manager and not obscured in this fashion.

What virt-manager version are you running? Mine is
virt-manager-0.9.0-19.el6.x86_64 and it shows the bridge devices like
Host device vnet0 (Bridge "br0")
Host device vnet1 (Bridge "br1")
and they are selectable.   Maybe it is something different in your
configuration.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com