[fedora-virt] F-11 libvirt no longer creating firewall/iptables rules for virtual network?
Dale Bewley
dlbewley at lib.ucdavis.edu
Sat Jun 27 16:21:33 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 19:43 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've recently installed F-11 and am having a problem with networking
> between the host and guest with the default network configuration -
> specifically that the iptables rules for virbr0 are not being inserted
> by libvirt as they used to be under F-10.
>
> I am using the default configuration of the firewall as shipped with
> F-11. The guest instance is a windowsXP image created under F-10 - I
> simply recreated the cconfig files by "creating" a new guest under
> virt-manager and pointing it to the disk image file. The guest boots
> up fine, but no networking. The output of iptables -L doesn't contain
> any reference to virbr0 or vnet0 (the latter automatically created
> when starting the guest OS) - I have confirmed virbr0 and vnet0 are
> present using ifconfig.. In case it's relevant this machine is using
> NetworkManager and has a single wired ethernet adapter configured with
> a static IP.
>
> Any suggestions on how I can debug further ?
# iptables --line-numbers -L -v -n
# chkconfig libvirtd --list
# virsh net-list --all
Name State Autostart
-----------------------------------------
default active yes
# virsh net-destroy default
# virsh net-start default
# virsh help |grep net
attach-interface attach network interface
detach-interface detach network interface
domifstat get network interface stats for a domain
net-autostart autostart a network
net-create create a network from an XML file
net-define define (but don't start) a network from an XML file
net-destroy destroy a network
net-dumpxml network information in XML
net-edit edit XML configuration for a network
net-list list networks
net-name convert a network UUID to network name
net-start start a (previously defined) inactive network
net-undefine undefine an inactive network
net-uuid convert a network name to network UUID
The rules that should be inserted are found
in /var/lib/libvirt/iptables.
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