[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#812529: Bug#812529: libvirt-daemon: libvirt virtual networks confuse network-manager

[Guido Günther]

severity 812529 wishlist

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 06:56:41PM +0100, Ralf Jung wrote:
> Package: libvirt-daemon
> Version: 1.3.0-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Whenever a libvirt virtual network is running, network-manager gets confused and says
> 
>   $ nmcli networking connectivity
>   full
> 
>   $ nmcli co show --active
>   NAME              UUID                                  TYPE       DEVICE            
>   virbr0-nic        60753a15-51aa-4d58-ae18-89ccc87ada79  generic    virbr0-nic        
>   virbr0            2792df43-9008-4f41-b125-22b645edc7d0  bridge     virbr0            
>   virbr1            b2c4a627-2d6c-439b-9866-7e9a59d9ea62  bridge     virbr1
> 
> no matter whether I am actually online or not.
> This is rather bad since it breaks all applications that like to detect whether they are online,
> like IM clients, browsers and E-Mail clients.
> 
> I don't know whether NM or libvirt is the better place to fix this. In any case, the two should
> somehow coordinate in order not to break other applications.

IMHO this should be fixed in NM or it even is already since you can
exclude unmanaged devices and you can add an URL to check if you're
"really" online.

So libvirt _could_ add entries to NMs conf.d to exclude bridges created
by it. Patches for this would be welcome (but should preferably go
upstream directly).

Cheers,
 -- Guido