We had a discussion on this:
I have to beg your pardon for all of the Ubuntu community, but we never
intended to support write-managing through libvirt in Bionic. Libvirt iface-*
never supported networkd or NetworkManager. To manage networks with different
backends there is netplan.io.
Adding a dependency to ifupdown from netcf could hurt new installs of Bionic by
pulling in ifupdown again - there are known issues and races around that that
we want to avoid.
Upgraders have ifupdown around from their past anyway and new users “insisting”
on the old use case can still install ifupdown on their own.
It is bad to not have the visibility of all devices in virsh iface-list
and virt-manager and such, but since this is the case since at least
Xenial and it never was an issue.
Compared to the alternatives - we didn’t come up with a way to fix it
yet which would not carry a regression risk (or even regression fact)
that would be too high. On balance it is not reasonable to be fixed at
the moment. If that importance goes up what might come to my mind is a
config option in libvirt where users can switch to udev - but that
feature isn’t implemented in libvirt at all - so it would be a major
effort not matching the severity of this IMHO.
Goin forward to Cosmic and beyond we will switch to the udev to fix the
visibility
For all of the of the above I’ll have to set Bionic to Won’t Fix unless
there is a change of severity due to for example more important use-
cases we haven’t seen.
/me feels bad as Nicolas made a great and valid bug report, but for now
this is the right choice
** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Importance: Low
Status: Confirmed
** Also affects: netcf (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Importance: High
Status: Triaged
** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: netcf (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: New => Won't Fix
** Changed in: netcf (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: New => Won't Fix
** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Importance: Low => Medium
** Changed in: netcf (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Importance: High => Medium
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