Re: network interface virbr0 ...what is it?

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On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 00:48 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 13:54 -0800, Bob Hung wrote:
> > Ric Moore wrote:
> > >
> > > virbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
> > >           inet addr:192.168.122.1  Bcast:192.168.122.255
> > > Mask:255.255.255.0
> > >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> > >           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > >           TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > >           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:88 (88.0 b)
> > >
> > >
> > > I have no clue what is hosting itself on 192.168.122.1
> > > Do I kill it somehow and were is it? I'm looking all through /etc and
> > > not finding it. Someone please clue me in. Ric
> > >
> > >   
> > "virbr0 192.168.122.0" is the virtual bridge network created by F8 VM 
> > (virtual machine) implementation.
> > All guest machines hosted by the host machine will be part of this 
> > 192.168.122.0 network.  I imagine
> > you installed some package from the 'Virtual Machine' group.  If you 
> > don't really need it, you can remove
> > the VM option and I think F8 would clean itself up.
> 
> Thanks! I'm running F7 and I'm not sure what package is in that "virtual
> machine" group. Would that be something like zen?

That's "Xen" and yes, that's the virtual machine stuff.

>  Is it doing any harm?

Not really.  Kinda useless if you're not going to run Xen.

> I just was wondering what the heck it was and network manager wasn't
> showing or controlling it. Merry Xmas to everyone! Ric

Network manager won't control that as it's under control of the Xen
kernel.

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