Comment # 91
on bug 1123699
from Oliver Kurz
(In reply to James Fehlig from comment #90)
> [���] It was a long and twisted road but I think you just discovered the reason
> for the regression!! Do you happen to know if [the issue] first appeared after the
> switch to NM was made?
I guess we had a case of overlapping issues. After all, there were fixes
intended for this bug here. I guess we can't find out all details from the
historical development easily anymore.
> > So maybe the solution would be that actually
> > yast2-vm needs to learn to create a bridge using NetworkManager now?
>
> Charles might have investigated that in the past, but he just confirmed via
> RC that yast2-vm currently "checks for NM and pops up a message saying you
> have to configure a bridge manually".
That's good to know. I would like to understand why our test also does not show
this e.g. in
https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/1231572#step/yast_virtualization/13 . But I
guess we can settle the issue by adjusting the test case accordingly to cover
at best *both* parts, one based on wicked and one based on NM. So we should
check the behaviour in both hence I created ticket
https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/65552 and will set this bug back to the
status RESOLVED FIXED.
> > If all
> > of this is considered out of scope at the very least I suggest to extend the
> > documentation in
> > https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/virtualization/single-html/book.
> > virt/#sec-vt-installation-kvm to not say "YaST offers to automatically
> > configure a bridge on the VM Host Server." but for example mention that this
> > only applies for wicked managed systems.
>
> I guess the openSUSE doc is derived from the SLES doc, where we don't
> mention it since NM is not the default in SLES. If it is not possible to
> make yast2-vm work with NM, then I agree we'll need to mention it in the doc.
I think if there is the popup dialog informing about NetworkManager needing
manual action then the documentation is also "correct" and can be considered
sufficient as is :)