Hi, There is an openvswitch service that might be useful. Marius used it when showing how to setup ganeti on Guix here: <https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/running-a-ganeti-cluster-on-guix/>
I have a Ganeti cluster myself and occasionally I have run some manual openvswitch commands for VM's not managed by ganeti which I think could have been declared similarly to whats done in the blog post if u want it to be declarative. Regards, David On June 11, 2024 1:52:34 PM GMT+02:00, Fabio Natali <m...@fabionatali.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I'd like to set up a server's network so as to have: > >- a bridge interface, >- the real Ethernet interface to be associated to the bridge. > >Among other things, this setup makes it possible to use QEMU in "bridge >networking" mode, i.e. to have QEMU VMs to also connect to the bridge >and become reachable as ordinary machines in the LAN. > >The Cookbook has a pretty thorough section⁰ on how to achieve >this. However, it makes use of NetworkManager, which makes things rather >stateful and can't be configured declaratively, if I understand it >correctly? I think I'd have a preference for >'static-networking-service-type' instead. > >However, when it comes to 'static-networking-service-type', I found this >other thread¹ which indicates some missing pieces in Guix's >'network-link' and 'network-set-up/linux'. Looking at the Guix logs, I >don't think there has been any further development on this since the >thread. > >Anyone else who has encountered the same issue? Any other possibility I >should take into account? Could it be worth to re-consider the >NetworkManager approach? Should I think of a little patch that adds the >missing functionality to 'static-networking-service-type'? > >Thanks, cheers, Fabio. > > >⁰ https://guix.gnu.org/cookbook/en/html_node/Network-bridge-for-QEMU.html >¹ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2023-03/msg00269.html > > >-- >Fabio Natali >https://fabionatali.com
