Is hot-plugging and hot-unplugging of network interfaces supported in RHEL5 KVM?
Issue
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Is hot-plugging and hot-unplugging of network interfaces supported in RHEL5 KVM?
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Why hotplugging a virtio network card to a kvm guest running under RHEL5 fails with the below error message?
# virsh attach-interface <guest name> bridge br0 --mac 02:17:42:2F:99:01 error: Failed to attach interface error: this function is not supported by the connection driver: installed qemu version does not support host_net_add
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Why hot-unplugging a virtio network interface in RHEL5 KVM guest fails with the below error message?
# virsh detach-interface <guest name> bridge --mac '54:52:00:27:E7:C7' error: Failed to detach interface error: operation failed: unable to determine original VLAN
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 KVM Host
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kvm-83-224.el5
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