Re: bridging support

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

Hi Robert

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Robert Vogelgesang
<vogel users sourceforge net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:55:11AM +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>   I do see, a branch for bridge support ( origin/bridge) which has not
>> been updated for quite a while. I also initial notes for briding and
>> bonding support
>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602265#c20) . I would
>> like to assist with this, and would like to know if there are people
>> working on this ( or a private branch ).
>
> the bugzilla link is broken; I see no comment 20 in bug 602265.
My apologies,  I was referring to the below

commit bb954bd5f39168ee2ab1ecb49bfc64f3946e986c
Author: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
Date:   Tue May 24 17:21:15 2011 -0500
    todo: add initial notes about bridging and bonding


>
> There is support for creating bridges in the current release of
> virt-manager (http://virt-manager.org/), written in Python and using
> Glade and GTK+ for the GUI.  That's not too far away from the libs
> NM uses, so maybe you could port the Python code to C.  virt-manager
> is licensed under GPLv2+, the same way as NetworkManager, so copying
> or porting code from there should have no licensing issues.
>
> But even if you don't want to copy code from virt-manager, you could
> try its GUI and maybe get some ideas for the NM GUI.
>
>        Robert
An interesting idea, I did not think of this.



>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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Thanks.

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Ritesh Khadgaray
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