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...was directed to this patch: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-February/msg01212.html ... > which does exactly what I was looking for. It doesn't build cleanly in that > state, but it's pretty trivial fix (needs actualType added to the function > definition for qemuNetworkIfaceConnect and the two calls modified) I send new patch version one day ago and it waiting for review. -- Vasiliy Tolstov, e-mail: v.tolstov@selfip.ru jabber: vase@selfip.ru

With Libvirt under modern kernels, you can't use <interface type='ethernet'> unless QEMU is running as root. Running qemu as root is not ideal, but I was able to track down the issue to this linux change: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ca6bb5d7ab22ac79f608fe6cbc6b12de6a5a19f0 Which means that if you're seeing errors like this:

.... > In IRC, I was directed to this patch: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-February/msg01212.html ... which does exactly what I was looking for. It doesn't build cleanly in that state, but it's pretty trivial fix (needs actualType added to the function definition for qemuNetworkIfaceConnect and the two calls modified)