Hi
I have bridge working fine with SL7.1 RC1

I notice you have BRIDGE="etho" I would have thought you should have that in the ifcfg-eth0 as BRIDGE="kvmbr0"

Hope that helps
Cheers
Bill 
 
-----Original message-----
> From:Otto-Michael BRAUN <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday 4th April 2015 18:53
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: bug report: SL7.1 - Virtual Machine Manager
> 
> 
> 
>     Bug related to bridge definitions existing in
>     /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts,
> 
>     Virtual Machine Manager stops starting w. error message.
> 
>     How to reproduce:
> 
>     - installation or upgrade SL7.1
> 
>     - copy a bridge definition into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, e.g.
> 
>     DEVICE=kvmbr0
> 
>     TYPE=Bridge
> 
>     BOOTPROTO=none
> 
>     ONBOOT=yes
> 
>     BRIDGE="eth0"
> 
>     IPADDR=192.168.55.31
> 
>     NETWORK=192.168.55.0
> 
>     PREFIX=25
> 
>     BROADCAST=192.168.55.127
> 
>     IPV6INIT=no
> 
>     NM_CONTROLLED=no
> 
>     NOZEROCONF=yes
> 
>     USERCTL=no
> 
>     PEERDNS=yes
> 
>     - start Virtual Machine Manager.
> 
>     Virtual Machine Manager does not start, but shows an error message,
>     e.g.
> 
>     "Error polling connection 'qemu///system':
> 
>     (interface_definition):7: Extra content at the
> 
>     end of the document
> 
>     </interface><interface type="bridge"
> 
>     name="vdslbr0">
> 
>     ----------------"
> 
>     You don't need to start or use this bridge, existence of a file
>     starting with ifcfg- containing the line "TYPE=Bridge" will do.
> 
>     As a workaround comment out all TYPE=Bridge lines before starting
>     Virtual Machine Manager, after start of VMM the comment marks can be
>     removed again. There must be a broken ifcfg- file check before in
>     VMManager before it starts.
> 
>     Probably nobody uses these bridge definitions as there is an age-old
>     bug in initscripts, which successfully prevents adding and deleting
>     of bridges. (See also bug report id 0007594,
>     https://bugs.centos.org/view_all_bug_page.php <https://bugs.centos.org/view_all_bug_page.php>, set filter to
>     Reporter: omb)
> 
>     As I can test SL7.1 only and not R..7.1 I cannot decide if this bug
>     should be reportet to R..H directly.
> 
>     omb
> 
>