KVM Vibr1 Setting Error: [###.###] lab-[bond, bridge] (unregistering): Release all slaves

Debian 13, KVM Server

Afternoon,

I have a lab-bridge0 using a lab-bond0 for all my connected NIC’s (1 Intel Card w/4. 1 Intel Board). I made a configuration error to the virbr1 bride setting for the lab-network’s bridge by adding the lab-bridge0. This caused my system to behaving undesirable after a restart, and I did not have control over my Desktop, so I had to do a hard shutdown.

The dafault.xml, I know is in folder /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/, but where is the vibr1.xml located so I can remove this setting. I’m in recovery mode and I temporarily disabled dmesg using -n 1, to stop the message flooding on the console.

UPDATE: I was able to find it here /sys/devices/virtual/net and /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf, but its dynamically appearing/disappearing so I can not edit it. I assuming the best way to solve this is just delete lab-network.xml file located at /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/ and recreate it?

UPDATE 2.0: I found the solution, and it was to just to:

nmcli connection delete virbr1

deleting the lab-network.xml did not work, but I save it in my root folder and replace it and now I back up and running. Except the network is not working. All my NIC;s are up, but no assign connections.

UPDATE 2.1: In order to get network connection and IP assignment, I had to delete the lab-[bridge, bond]. But I can get the Cockpit Networking Module working.

Thanks!…

FINAL: Don’t ever do what I did in mistakenly assigning bride0 to virbr1. I had painstakingly delete the lab-[bridge, bond], Lab-Network, virbr1 and recreate NIC connections, then bond0 and bridge0.

And after reboot all is good now!… :joy: :smiling_face: :partying_face: