NX users may confuse between connected to vm or connected to the switch (despite of <plugged>), as they used to <link>=up|down<link/>
Yap, no convergence on terminology yet, right? I think we need to keep the plugged/unplugged not to confuse libvirt users however let's do wired/un-wired = link-up / link-down it's understood by everyone and Michael pointed out What about allowing a nic with the no-network? Did not see discussion on this. It is useful as an interim state when changing networks or if the nic is there to be use by a hook. This may also be useful when allowing to purge a network while it is connected to VMs: Link-Down on all nics and connect to the empty/no network. (Yes I know, it's not par of the feature, but you know someone will ask for it soon :)) The coupling between vNIC and LN should break - for this feature (that I hate to call it wired) and for future to come. Simon.