virtual machine manager and qemu/kvm in f7

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:35:39PM +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:34:54 +0100 Daniel P. Berrange wrote
> >The networking options depend on whether you're running as root or a 
> >normal user.
> 
> Your clarification seems to be confirmed by the fact that if I run
> virt-manager icon when connected as a normal user into the gnome
> session, I get the prompt for the root password, so I presume actually
> I then run it as root and I don't get the SLIRP networking option.
> Probably this is intended by design with the aim not to have normal
> users runnign VMs and possibly exhausting the host.....
> 
> Suppose I want so to run as root, how to provide IP to the guest?
> it seems qemu dhcp server doesn't provide one.... I tried both
> possible configurations...

The virtual networks setup by libvirt run a dnsmasq process to provide
DNS + DHCP services to the guest. That said there's a missing Requires:
line in the libvirt RPM currently in rawhide so there's a good chance
you're missing dnsmasq. yum install it & 'service libvirtd restart'
or a reboot should correct that.

Dan.
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