Creating a Network Bond on Oracle VM Fails With : "stderr: ovs-bond-if Start: Primary,Backup Interfaces Must Not Have IP Address." (Doc ID 2173637.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 10, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle VM - Version 3.3.1 and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux x86-64

On Oracle VM, when in the Servers and VMs perspective and switching to "Bond Ports", it is possible to create bonds of more than one interface.

When attempting to do so, it at this step :

It fails with the following kind of error :

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