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Get bridged network working on the Flatpak

The libvirt network bridge is a very desirable feature that we have. It has been problematic across various downstreams because of all sorts of settings: binaries/conf files in various prefixes, user/group permissions, and whatnot.

It would be great to get this working in the flatpak sandbox with zero or minimum requirement of interaction with host APIs.

What I could investigate so far is...

  • These paths shouldn't be hardcoded: src/util-app.vala#L246
  • libvirt needs to find the qemu-bridge-helper binary. @teuf pointed at libvirt/m4/virt-driver-qemu.m4. By replacing /usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper with /app/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper I managed to get libvirt to find it.
  • Instead of patching libvirt, it would be nice if this could either be a build option or a config we could set.
Edited by Felipe Borges