kvm/qemu network problem

[Bret]

On 07/10/2009 07:04 AM, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> 2009/7/10 Bret<bret381 at gmail.com>:
>> I set up a windows xp virtual machine.  Windows recognizes the nic and set
>> up a driver for it, however it will not get an ip address from my router.  I
>> set up win xp before and everything worked, however, I deleted the vm a
>> while back ago and now need it back.  (Guess I shouldn't have gotten rid of
>> it)  Anyway, all I get is the win generated ip address 169.xxx.xxx.xxx and
>> cannot connect to the internet.
>>
>> Running Fedora 11 x86_64 on:
>>
>> ASUS motherboard
>> Intel Core 2 Quad
>> Atheros based 10/100/1000 nic
>> 4 GB RAM
>> nvidia geforce 8400
>>
>> Any help appreciated
>
> You don't detail how you went about setting up your networking - by
> default virt-manager will set up NAT networking on the host machine,
> such that the guest gets an ip from the host for a local (to the host)
> network. That should work for most use cases, but if you really need
> your guest to be visible on the network and get an IP address from
> your router you need to use bridged networking. A slightly out of date
> howto is here:
>
>
> http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking
>
> It's out of date in that F11 NetworkManager does (I think) support
> bridging, so it may not be necessary to disable NM.
>
> HTH,
> Jonathan
>
thanks for the help, it is set up as the default NAT network, but is 
unable to connect to the net.  I will give that link a try.