How to create tap devices using virsh?

Question

This is a snippet from configuration file created using qemu-kvm management tool. How do I create the same config using VMM or virsh?

[net]
  type = "nic"

[net]
  type = "tap"
  script = "/etc/ovs-ifup"
  downscript = "/etc/ovs-ifdown"

Answer 1

This configuration file indicates that you're using OpenVSwitch to manage virtual network ports for you KVM virtual machines.

Refer to this article for howtos and how it creates/destroy virtual network ports.

You can use this command to create and then enable new tap device vnetX: ip tuntap add dev vnetX mode tap ip link set up dev vnetX