I realised that it is possible to create a managed physical network with same name as an existing physical network. Basically transforming an unmanaged network into a managed one.
Is this simply an undocumented feature or a bug?
If I have the following networks
$ incus network ls
+----------+----------+---------+------------+------+-------------+---------+---------+
| NAME | TYPE | MANAGED | IPV4 | IPV6 | DESCRIPTION | USED BY | STATE |
+----------+----------+---------+------------+------+-------------+---------+---------+
| col0 | physical | false | | | | 0 | |
+----------+----------+---------+------------+------+-------------+---------+---------+
| eth0 | physical | false | | | | 0 | |
+----------+----------+---------+------------+------+-------------+---------+---------+
| incusbr0 | bridge | true | 10.0.0.1/8 | none | | 2 | CREATED |
+----------+----------+---------+------------+------+-------------+---------+---------+
| lo | loopback | false | | | | 0 | |
+----------+----------+---------+------------+------+-------------+---------+---------+
And I create a managed network with same name as the parent, col0.
incus network create col0 --type=physical parent=col0
Listing the networks now shows col0 as a managed network, with the actual physical network suppressed.
$ incus network ls
+----------+----------+---------+------------+------+-------------+---------+---------+
| NAME | TYPE | MANAGED | IPV4 | IPV6 | DESCRIPTION | USED BY | STATE |
+----------+----------+---------+------------+------+-------------+---------+---------+
| col0 | physical | true | | | | 0 | CREATED |
+----------+----------+---------+------------+------+-------------+---------+---------+
| eth0 | physical | false | | | | 0 | |
+----------+----------+---------+------------+------+-------------+---------+---------+
| incusbr0 | bridge | true | 10.0.0.1/8 | none | | 2 | CREATED |
+----------+----------+---------+------------+------+-------------+---------+---------+
| lo | loopback | false | | | | 0 | |
+----------+----------+---------+------------+------+-------------+---------+---------+
It indeed works fine and makes it convenient to start an instance with the managed network instead of needing to specify a nic device.
I stumbled upon this by accident but would like to know if this was indeed intended.
Thanks.