On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Greg has made some excellent explanation and answers. I wanted to > comment on a few other things. > > Ross Boylan wrote: > .... > > Arun made a suggestion that > > > Your 'physical' device eth0/eth2 or whatever needs to be added to the > > bridge. > > I believe that is done by the /etc/kvm/kvm-ifup script that is executed > > when I launch the virtual machine. > > I think that file must have been removed at some point. I have > the qemu-kvm package (which owns that file) installed but do not have > that file on my system. The qemu-kvm.postinst script in the current > package removes the conffile. So just a note that the file doesn't > exist in recent versions. > I just installed qemu-kvm (1.1.2) on a brand new wheezy system. Are you saying wheezy doesn't have it, or that it was removed later?
After I get the networking fixed I will likely backport a more recent version, since I'm having other "issues" as well. Ross > > > One thing I struggled with was that qemu-kvm, via the /etc/kvm/kvm-ifup > > script I mentioned above, does some stuff automatically. Help that is > > written without that in mind tends to include instructions that either > > duplicate or, perhaps, are at cross-purposes with it. > > And since that file was removed I assume it was problematic for others > as well. > > Bob >
