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I'm working on a project using libvirt with qemu and openvswitch on Debian 10. I would like to be able to modify the configuration of a network card of a domain in bash with the update-device command of virsh.

For that I took an example from this article.

The initial configuration of the network interface is as follows:

<interface type='bridge'>
  <source bridge='waldorf0'/>
  <virtualport type='openvswitch'/>
  <model type='virtio'/>
</interface>

After the domain define and start, I get the mac address assigned to the interface and i product this file :

<interface type='bridge'>
   <mac address='52:54:XX:XX:XX:XX'/>
   <source bridge='waldorf0'/>
   <virtualport type='openvswitch'/>
   <model type='virtio'/>
   <vlan>
       <tag id='2'/>
   </vlan>
 </interface>

After I execute this command :

virsh update-device domain int_conf.xml --live --persistent

It returns :

error: Failed to update device from int_conf.xml
error: Operation not supported: unnable to change config on 'bridge' network type

If you have an idea to work around this problem in order to dynamically tag vlan on interfaces. Thank you in advance

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  • What libvirt version? Is this a standard libvirt package from debian? Is that error message a direct copy of what you are seeing? It contains a typo 'unnable' which I don't see in libvirt git
    – Cole Robinson
    Dec 15, 2019 at 20:06
  • I'm sorry I solved the problem. This was because the XML file I used with the update-device command accidentally deleted parameters. Thanks anyway.
    – Nicolas
    Dec 16, 2019 at 14:25

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I solved the problem. This was because the XML file I used with the update-device command accidentally deleted parameters. I use the dumpxml command to get the exact configuration of the interface.

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