[CentOS] Cannot get kvm guests to connect to network

James B. Byrne byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca
Mon Oct 15 14:56:57 UTC 2012


On Fri, October 12, 2012 09:16, James B. Byrne wrote:
> This cross-posted from the main Centos discussion list.
>
> I installed a new CentOS-6.3 kvm guest on a recently provisioned kvm
> host also running CentOS-6.3.  This guest will not connect to the
> network and the host cannot connect to it via its public IP address. I
> had previously installed a guest system on thst same kvm host using
> the same ISO and that system connects to the network without problem.
>
> I next created a third guest instance and this too does not connect
> with either the kvm host or the gateway.
>

See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857498

It may turn out that I have inadvertently some configuration value set
incorrectly but at the moment it seems to me to be a problem with
virt-manager.  Basically, new guest instances are having this put into
their definition file by virt-manager:

>     <interface type='network'>
>       <mac address='52:54:00:6c:35:1a'/>
>       <source network='default'/>

when it should be:

>     <interface type='bridge'>
>       <mac address='52:54:00:6c:35:1a'/>
>       <source bridge='br0'/>

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