Am 07.04.2014 19:14, schrieb Tom H: > You're welcome. > > I've never used virt-manager but I assume that it functions like > virt-install or that it uses virt-install under the gui. > > If that's the case, it won't use predefined tap devices, slaved to a > bridge or not. It'll create vnetX tap devices and add them to a bridge > on the fly. But if you want to use tapX tap devices rather than vnetX > ones, you can edit the xml to set that up.
I just looked up what systemd-networkd and virt-manager do. No tap-devices here when I run a local VM ... so I might review the openrc-script for reference. Thanks, Stefan