Hi Anil, as Livnat said, ;vdsmdummy; is required for operation of vdsm, concretely for changing the link state of a vnic to disconnected. As for the bonds, they are not created on systemd distros Fedora18+ but they are indeed created on older distros for backwards compatibility reasons.
Best, Toni ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Livnat Peer" <[email protected]> > To: "Anil Dhingra" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], "Antoni Segura Puimedon" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 8:25:40 AM > Subject: Re: [Users] VDSM n/w issue > > On 08/08/2013 08:37 AM, Anil Dhingra wrote: > > Hi Guys > > > > Just started working on ovirt a month age ,, but stuck on after > > installing VDSM on centos 6.4 > > it creates ;vdsmdummy; & 4 bonding interfaces , didn't got any info for > > them in google as I don't need them but not sure how to remove them & > > why it get created if I am not using ovirt-node . > > > > Thanks > > Anil > > > > Hi Anil, > First of all welcome and I hope you'll enjoy working with oVirt. > > vdsdummy is a bridge VDSM creates and uses for functionality like > disconnected VNIC. > If you start a VM and you want the VM to have a vNIC not connected to a > specific network (bridge) VDSM starts the VM and connects the tap device > to the vdsdummy bridge. This is a workaround to a functionality we are > missing in libvirt (starting a VM with unconnected tap device). > > About the 4 bonds, well that's a legacy code and I think we cleaned this > code in the last version 3.3 - but I'm not sure (Adding Toni to > confirm/disconfirm) > > Livnat > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
