Comment 2 for bug 457899

I have this problem too. I have a karmic host and a karmic client. I connect over ssh to the server. The server has br0 configured as bridge. But I don't get the "Shared physical devices" listed in the GUI.

I edited the config files of the domain directly and added theses lines:
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <mac address='00:16:3e:1a:b3:ca'/>
      <source bridge='br0'/>
    </interface>

This works like a charm, but would be nice to have a GUI to do that...

I found an interessiting blog articel about that problem:
http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/virt-manager-cannot-select-shared-physical-device-when-configuring-network/

A default server installation doesnt have a hal daemon/dbus daemon installed, has it?