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Re: vnetX

 

Thank you Vish

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> It is done by libvirt.
>
> Vish
>
> On Jun 5, 2012, at 11:55 PM, William Herry wrote:
>
> when a instance created, a network interface call vnetX will be created
> and attach to that instance
>
> I find related info about this in nova/virt/libvirt/vif.py, ip and tunctl
> seem to be the tool to create that,
> but one of our compute node base on centos6.2, iproute is not support
> tuntap(show error when I run ip tuntap add)
> and uml-utilities(provide tunctl command) is not installed, but vnetX
> still be created when launch a instance
>
> my question is, how did vnetX created, doesn't nova code handle this, or
> this work belong to libvirt
> can I create this kind interface manually and attach to instance, how to
> do this
>
> Thanks
>
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