KVM guest installation fails if bridge br0 is specified

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Issue

  • KVM guest sometimes fails to be installed in a KVM host (RHEL6 beta2)
  • if a connected bridge(br0) is specified.  virt-manager reports the following message, then the installation aborts.

    br0:No such device  
    
  • If "virt-install --bridge=br0" is executed from command line, Installation succeeds.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

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