Linux Bridge

The Linux Bridge plugin, vif_plug_linux_bridge, is an os-vif VIF plugin for the Linux Bridge network backend. It is one of three plugins provided as part of os-vif itself, the others being Open vSwitch and no-op.

Supported VIF Types

The Linux Bridge plugin provides support for the following VIF types:

VIFBridge

Configuration where a guest is connected to a Linux bridge via a TAP device. This is the only supported configuration for this plugin.

For information on the VIF type objects, refer to VIF Types. Note that only the above VIF types are supported by this plugin.