On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:13, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 14 October 2008 15:59:54 Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > from 'cat /etc/rc.conf' >> > >> > # Some people want a finer grain over hotplug/coldplug. rc_plug_services >> > is a # list of services that are matched in order, either allowing or >> > not. By # default we allow services through as rc_coldplug/rc_hotplug has >> > to be YES # anyway. >> > # Example - rc_plug_services="net.wlan !net.*" >> > # This allows net.wlan and any service not matching net.* to be plugged. >> > rc_plug_services="" >> >> 1) None of that text appears in my /etc/rc.conf > > Oops, slipped my mind - that text shows up in openrc and baselayout-2 which > you might not be using yet > >> 2) I don't understand how the above applies. >> >> 3) Has that changed recently thus breaking support for bridge >> interfaces? > > Inferred from the error message - if you prevent any hotplugging from > occurring for a virtual interface, the problem ought to be solved. > > I'm not sure about recent thinks breaking the bridge, my only recent > experience is that bridges tend to break themselves in frustrating ways, ably > helped along by virtualization software <bang head><bang head>
I have a working setup with bridging and qemu for about 3 years, so, I guess the code is pretty stable. Probably just a DHCP problem, try setting a static IP and see how it goes. -- Daniel da Veiga