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See also:
get,set,local.bridged-network, How to add networks to existing instances
Key
local.<instance-name>.bridged
where <instance-name> is the name of a Multipass instance.
Description
Whether or not the virtual machine is connected to the preferred bridge that is currently defined by local.<instance-name>.bridged.
Setting this to true will cause the instance to be bridged to that host network interface.
Removing a bridged network from an instance is currently not supported.
Possible values
This setting can have a boolean value (true or false). However, at this time, it can only be manually set to true, but not to false.
The value of this setting depends on the value of local.bridged-network; that is, it varies dynamically according to the configured preferred network and the networks that have been added to the instance so far.
Examples
multipass set local.ultimate-grosbeak.bridged=true
If the instance ultimate-grosbeak was launched with the command multipass launch --network eth0, the result of multipass get local.ultimate-grosbeak.bridged will be true for as long as the value of local.bridged-network is eth0.
If you run the command multipass set local.bridged-network=eth1, the result of multipass get local.ultimate-grosbeak.bridged will become false. At that point, you could run the command multipass set local.ultimate-grosbeak.bridged=true to bridge ultimate-grosbeak with eth1.
Bridged connection to a physical network interface
On some platforms/backends, Multipass cannot connect instances directly to physical network interface controllers (NICs). In this case, Multipass offers to create a bridge/switch on the host connecting to that NIC. The instance is then connected to the bridge/switch, achieving the same effect as if it had been connected to the physical NIC directly. An instance that is indirectly connected with a physical NIC in this fashion is also considered to be bridged with that NIC by Multipass.
For example, if the preferred network is eth1 and the instance ultimate-grosbeak is connected with a bridge br-eth1 that is linked with eth1, then multipass get local.ultimate-grosbeak.bridged will return true.
Default value
true if the instance is bridged with the preferred network, false otherwise.