[CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 and KVM woes

Fri Jul 15 21:07:48 UTC 2011
Trey Dockendorf <treydock at gmail.com>

I have decided to migrate my latest KVM server to CentOS 6.0 and am
beginning to get a little frustrated with some issues that worked perfectly
in 5.6.

Right now I've given up on getting virbr0 and NAT to work, but now I need
networking bridging to work, but nothing seems to fix the issue.  I have not
had much experience with troubleshooting KVM so could really use some
pointers on resolving this issue.

I have successfully bridged one of the server's NICs to br0, and I can ping
the IP remotely that is assigned to br0, but none of the VMs that worked in
5.6's KVM are able to access the network.  Please let me know what
information would be useful to troubleshoot this.

Here's what I have so far...

ifcfg-eth3...
---------------------------------
DEVICE="eth3"
HWADDR="00:1B:21:A1:CF:76"
ONBOOT="yes"
BRIDGE=br0

ifcfg-br0
--------------------------------
DEVICE=br0
TYPE=Bridge
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
IPADDR=....
BROADCAST=....
NETMASK=....
NETWORK=....


# brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
br0 8000.001b21a1cf76 no eth3


sysctl.conf has these 3 additional lines...
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables = 0
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 0
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables = 0


Again I can ping br0's IP remotely , but no VMs assigned to it can access
even that network's gateway.  I have disabled iptables and ip6tables for now
while trying to get this to work.  The VMs , worked just fine in 5.6 and I
have done nothing different but import them with virsh.

Thanks
- Trey
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