os-vif/doc/source/user/plugins/linux-bridge.rst

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 ovs and noop.

Supported VIF Types

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

~os_vif.objects.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 /user/vif-types. Note that only the above VIF types are supported by this plugin.