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

[Daniel Henrique Barboza]

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.