libvirt

I have a need to setup a virtual network on a VM-host server. Usually, I just use the virt-manager gui application to create this task. However, I’d like to do this via command line this time. Why? Well, why not? It’s always fun to learn new thing. :) libvirt keeps network configuration in XML files under /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/. Here is what I have on one of my machines: # ls -1 /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/*xml /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/classroom....

After many and many weeks, I finally got libvirt working on this Gentoo machine. Before revealing how I’ve fixed this problem, let’s go through what the issues were. On this Gentoo I run Firewalld with nftables as backend. An alternative to nftables is iptables, but since nftables is newer and is becoming the default backend for more and more distribution including Fedora, I think it’s a good thing to adobt it early....