Re: [Kimchi-devel] [RFC] Add support for Macvtap and Linux Bridge

On 10/15/2015 10:15 AM, Ramon Medeiros wrote:

Kimchi today creates network pool using macvtap. Now, we want the user to choose if it want Linux Bridge or macvtap.

If you want to understand the pros and cons of this features, we can see here: https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/wiki/Create-guest-network

Proposal:

Add "mode" option when creating a network pool.

If macvtap is choosed, keep the actual procedure.

If bridge is choosed, create linux bridge using net commands(brctl) and create network pool pointing to the new bridge.

Create tests for this.

I approve this proposal, but perhaps we can rely on Ginger to do the linux bridge? I am worried about having both kimchi and ginger messing with the network interfaces.