[ale] CentOS 7 virtual IF installed by default

[Edward O. Holcroft]

So it looks like libvirt is installed as a result of gnome-boxes, which I
guess is part of the groups "Basic server with GUI" in CentOS. So no
critical deps for my purposes.

Thanks for the help.

ed


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On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> That may be used to act as an internal gateway for virtual machines.
> Remove the virtual systems rpms and it should go away.
>
> rpm -qa | grep virt | xargs yum remove
>
> That will test the removal for conflicts. Add "-y" after yum to actually
> remove things.
>
> On Sep 5, 2016 6:03 PM, "Edward O. Holcroft" <eholcroft at mkainc.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get a better understanding of why CentOS installs a virtual
> interface on 192.168.122.1 seemingly by default.
>
> I'm finding it's creating trouble on my network because AD DNS is picking
> up this IP on the network and adding an entry for it. I tried deleting it
> (the DNS entry) but it keeps getting recreated. I could disable the
> interface, but am concerned I might break something. What's it actually for
> and is it safe to just get rid of it?
>
> The strange thing is my network seems to prefer finding this virtual
> interface's IP over the IP that I assigned to etho. I certainly don't want
> that.
>
> I'm running CentOS for Windows file sharing. Maybe I installed some
> package that results in this virtual interface being installed, but I'm not
> sure what. These boxes are really only doing Samba, although they do have a
> basic GUI installed too.
>
> ed
>
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