Hi all. I use Cobbler to manage my PXE boot. I would like to extend my use to manage VM deployment with Koan. But I have a problem related to network and my VM can't boot. I have already posted on Cobbler mailing-list but it's probably on kvm/libvirt side... I am on Fedora 10 with Cobbler 1.6.4 and Koan 1.6.3 (latest available from stable repos), and libvirt 0.5.1-2.fc10. I would like to create VMs using KVM thus I have imported FC10 DVD, added Everything and Updates repos and created a host using the profile created during import. The system has the following properties : root# cobbler system report vmtest system : vmtest profile : fedora-core-10-x86_64 comment : created : Fri May 8 13:43:40 2009 gateway : 192.168.1.254 hostname : vmtest image : kernel options : {} kernel options post : {} kickstart : <<inherit>> ks metadata : {} mgmt classes : [] modified : Sat May 23 18:42:59 2009 name servers : [] name servers search : [] netboot enabled? : True owners : ['admin'] redhat mgmt key : <<inherit>> redhat mgmt server : <<inherit>> server : <<inherit>> template files : {} virt cpus : <<inherit>> virt file size : <<inherit>> virt path : <<inherit>> virt ram : <<inherit>> virt type : <<inherit>> power type : ipmitool power address : power user : power password : power id : interface : eth0 mac address : ff:00:00:01:00:00 bonding : bonding_master : bonding_opts : is static? : True ip address : 192.168.1.201 subnet : 255.255.255.0 static routes : [] dns name : vmtest.local dhcp tag : virt bridge : br0 As you can see, I use a bridged network with a real bridge create with the method described on the wiki (eth0 is the real interface and br0 the bridge). Then I create the VM using : koan --server=<a href="http://cobbler.evenit.info/" target="_blank">cobbler.evenit.info</a> --virt --system=vmtest The VM is correctly created and started : kernel and initrd are correctly set, virtual hard drive is right and network interface seems right. root# ps -edf | grep kvm root 19484 23655 67 21:54 ? 00:00:06 /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc -m 256 -smp 1 -name vmtest -monitor pty -no-reboot -boot c -kernel /var/lib/libvirt/boot/<div id=":16d" class="ii gt">virtinst-vmlinuz.omv9yr -initrd /var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-initrd.img.Ufj-qc -append ks=<a href="http://cobbler.evenit.info/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/vmtest" target="_blank">http://cobbler.evenit.info/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/vmtest</a> ksdevice=link kssendmac lang= text method=<a href="http://cobbler.evenit.info/cblr/links/fedora-core-10-x86_64/" target="_blank">http://cobbler.evenit.info:80/cblr/links/fedora-core-10-x86_64/</a> -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/vmtest-disk0,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on -net nic,macaddr=ff:00:00:01:00:00,vlan=0,model=virtio -net tap,fd=14,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 -serial pty -parallel none -usb -vnc <a href="http://127.0.0.1:0/" target="_blank">127.0.0.1:0</a> -k en-us But, when I open the VM display with virt-manager, I see that installation can't start as DHCP is not answering... There's no trace of the DHCP requests on DHCP server and vnet0 seems to have no trafic : [root@lilith ~]# netstat -i Table d'interfaces noyau Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg br0 1500 0 173524 0 0 0 261005 0 0 0 BMRU eth0 1500 0 173589 0 0 0 260909 0 0 0 BMPRU lo 16436 0 29105 0 0 0 29105 0 0 0 LRU vnet0 1500 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 BMRU As far as I can see, it seems vnet0 doesn't forward its trafic to br0 like there's no link. I have also seen that the vnet0 interface seen from host (opposed to guest) doesn't have the MAC address asked for vnet0, but this may be normal. -- Fabien</div>