severity 572784 wishlist thanks Toni Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 06.03.2010 at 19:02:33 +0300, Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> wrote: >> fragile (I for one will hate packages which substitute my >> eth0 with a bridge and change firewall rules behind my back). > > agreed. This would easily become very fragile. > >> And another is to change the script in question (/etc/kvm/kvm-ifup) >> to do what is right on your host. > > This is what I did even before reporting the bug.
Aha. I did not immediately realize #569990 is from you too :) >> option - you know your setup, and it is a configuration file >> for exactly this reason. > > Ok. I missed the "config file" part when I reported the bug. All files in /etc in Debian are config files. >> Maybe it is a good idea to look at the bridge and add the >> interface to the bridge if there's only one bridge. But >> I don't really see why it is better than just using the >> interface with default route -- maybe even that is overkill >> and/or illogical: since we don't create the bridge at install >> time, why should we try to find such a bridge in kvm-ifup? > > Ummm... I'd say that the current situation where the default networking > is to set up the virtual machine like a PC behind a DSL router with > NAT, is too simplistic in almost all cases. But you have a point in > that there are many ways to configure something else, and that it would > be too complex and error prone to reconfigure the system automatically. I think I'll set severity to wishlist for this. But I'm not sure it will be addressed in any reasonable future. Thanks! /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
