Error message FAIL

I'm trying to get libvirt working, just to play with it.  Here's the error:

libvir: Network Config error : cannot create bridge 'virbr0': Package not installed

Package not installed?  But the bridge utilities are installed.  After much googling, I discovered it's a bridge-utils error message, and here's my translated version:

Ethernet bridging support isn't enabled in the kernel

lrn2writeerrormessages.  kthx.

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UBC VPN

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I need to document this.  Why do most help manuals and HOWTOs read like the author assumes the reader is an expert, and knows what he or she is doing?  I had a professor like that once in undergrad; he taught his course as though we all had already mastered the content.  We learned nothing.

I couldn't help thinking of him while trying to setup VPN access to UBC.  "It's easy, even in Linux" the HOWTO claims, but it is scarcely more than: 1. Setup VPN.  2. Add routes.  3. Done.  Steps 1 and 2 could use a few sub-points.

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Research About

I’m a PhD student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in electrical and computer engineering. My supervisor is Dr. Guy Lemieux and I’m studying in an area called Spatial Computing. Specifically, how to split a computer program up among a million-ish very small processors, and have it do useful work.

The rest of this is just a placeholder, until I write more.

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Bangkok Thailand

Well, I'm safely in Thailand.. sitting at the conference right now, on conference computers. We have no wireless, and can't plug our own computers in.

Bangkok, is, well, I'm going to reserve judgement for another time. I'm trying to separate culture shock from Bangkok shock. It's.. interesting. I'll leave it at that.

We did some touristy stuff on Monday... I'll write more about that, and post pictures when I get home.. it's conference time now.. yay!

Update:

Yea, so I forgot to update this. Basically, had a blast in Thailand. We saw the royal palace, saw a temple, had a ride up the river on a boat... Went to the weekend market.. bought stuff.. ate stuff.. went clubbing.. and just had a great time. The purchase power of the dollar is fantastic. Pictures.

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