Marcus, I tried with the patch you have provided on IPV6 branch.
Now I see the the public interface being programed correctly. But there are issues with 'cloudbr1' and system Vms are still not coming up. The same issue is also seen when testing with master branch. [root@Rack3Host4 agent]# brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces brem1-1363 8000.bc305bd41f86 no em1.1363 cloud0 8000.000000000000 no cloudbr0 8000.bc305bd41f86 no em1 virbr0 8000.525400463d1f yes virbr0-nic [root@Rack3Host4 agent]# ls /sys/devices/virtual/net brem1-1363 cloud0 cloudbr0 em1.1363 lo virbr0 virbr0-nic Following exception seen in agent.log: 2013-01-29 18:40:55,451 WARN [kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource] (agentRequest-Handler-2:null) Failed to start domain: v-2-VM: Cannot get interface MTU on 'cloudbr1': No such device 2013-01-29 18:40:55,452 WARN [kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource] (agentRequest-Handler-2:null) Exception org.libvirt.LibvirtException: Cannot get interface MTU on 'cloudbr1': No such device at org.libvirt.ErrorHandler.processError(Unknown Source) at org.libvirt.Connect.processError(Unknown Source) at org.libvirt.Domain.processError(Unknown Source) at org.libvirt.Domain.create(Unknown Source) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.startDomain(LibvirtComputingResource.java:1049) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.execute(LibvirtComputingResource.java:3096) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.executeRequest(LibvirtComputingResource.java:1174) at com.cloud.agent.Agent.processRequest(Agent.java:525) at com.cloud.agent.Agent$AgentRequestHandler.doTask(Agent.java:852) at com.cloud.utils.nio.Task.run(Task.java:83) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) 2013-01-29 18:40:55,452 WARN [cloud.agent.Agent] (agentRequest-Handler-2:null) Caught: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.cleanupVMNetworks(LibvirtComputingResource.java:4223) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.handleVmStartFailure(LibvirtComputingResource.java:2992) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.execute(LibvirtComputingResource.java:3116) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.executeRequest(LibvirtComputingResource.java:1174) at com.cloud.agent.Agent.processRequest(Agent.java:525) at com.cloud.agent.Agent$AgentRequestHandler.doTask(Agent.java:852) at com.cloud.utils.nio.Task.run(Task.java:83) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) Thanks Sangeetha