initscripts

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 14:50 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> 
> I have to admit that I remain pretty unhappy with NetworkManager. 
> It's a complex GUI on top of the underlying actual iinit scrupts, it 

Um. No it isn't. I think you have fundamentally misunderstood what 
NetworkManager is. You seem to be treating nm-connection-editor, a 
small GUI configuration tool for NetworkManager, as if it *was* 
NetworkManager.

NetworkManager is a daemon for controlling network connections. nm-
connection-editor is *one* configuration tool for it; there are many 
others, and you can also configure it by editing configuration files.

NetworkManager, per se, supports KVM bridging fine. Refer to 
https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/07/23/bridged-networking-for-libvirt-with-networkmanager-2014-fedora-21/ , but note that the udev rule workaround documented there is not, I 
think, required with F21 final. Also note that, there, I tried to 
document the GUI way of doing it via GNOME Shell to demonstrate that 
it's possible; in practice, for sysadmins, I'd simply recommend doing 
it with ifcfg files, as described in 'Background and details'. 
Fundamentally all it needs is two ifcfg files, one for the bridge, one 
for the slave interface, with a few directives in each; in fact, the 
same configuration files will work for both network.service and 
NetworkManager.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
http://www.happyassassin.net