On 26/10/17(Thu) 23:47, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 08:23:05AM +0200, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > > On 26/10/17(Thu) 16:23, Carlos Cardenas wrote: > > > * Require interface name to be defined for switches in vm.conf > > > ** Requires user to create bridge(4) beforehand > > > * Remove code to create bridges on the fly > > > * Add code to ensure bridge really exists > > > * Update manpage switch and example sections > > > > What's the motivation to ask people to create a bridge(4) beforehand? > > > > This discussion came out of a previous effort to fix a bug where vmd(8) > doesn't > deconfigure bridges (and/or undo changes to bridges) it made during > initialization. After discussing this a bit with claudio, we decided that > rather than having vmd try to do magic stuff with creating bridges and > tearing them down behind the scenes (including corner cases where vmd is > killed or crashes/etc), it made sense instead to say "you create the bridge > and tell me which one you want to use". This can easily be accomplished > with a 1 (or 2) line /etc/hostname.bridgeX file. > > We may decide later to have vmd try to create bridges again at some point > but for now, I think this is a way to make some forward progress in this > area.
I don't want to stop progress but I don't understand how creating a bridge(4) beforehand help to "deconfigure" it. Hence my question.
