[libvirt] default networking issues

[Cole Robinson]

Bryan Kearney wrote:
> Need some help about where to look next. I am running a Fedora 9 
> machine, up to date on the releaed rpms. SELinux is permissive, iptables 
> is stopped. I have followed the instructions for NAT forwarding [1]. 
> When I launch a guest in virt manager it uses the default network, and 
> is assigned an IP address in the 192.168.122 space. It can do dns 
> resolution, but can not wget a known website (www.cnn.com). From my host 
> machine, I can ssh into the guest.
> 
> Where is the next place I should look. Is the fact that I am running in 
> a corporate network causing me issues?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- bk
> 

I've actually had similar issues with this. I would kick off an http
install, it would get to anaconda, pull down a kickstart, and when
it would start to pull the install kernel it would get nowhere.
tcpdumping virbr0 would show that about every 5-10 seconds there
would be some communication with the server, but no apparent
progress. 

However this is only on my lenovo t61, tried both f8 and f9 host.
The same exact workflow on multiple other boxes worked fine, all
machines (laptop included) using wired networking. Tried with f8,
f9, and rhel5 guests. So maybe its hardware specific?

I eventually just switched to bridged networking :/

- Cole