[libvirt] F12beta guest will not connect to LAN via bridge

[Gerry Reno]

Gerry Reno wrote:
> Gerry Reno wrote:
>> Setup:
>> HOST: F11 x86_64
>> GUEST: F12beta x86_64
>>
>> I have a number of guests setup on this host and all connect without 
>> a problem with the 'br0' bridge on the host.  I created a new guest 
>> and loaded F12beta on it.  I defined it to also use 'br0' networking 
>> but this guest cannot ping anything on the LAN.  All the other guests 
>> have no problems communicating to addresses on the LAN.
> The only thing I can find is that the new F12beta guest does not have 
> 'bridge' module loaded in kernel as compared with a working existing 
> F11 guest.  I tried loading the 'bridge' module but this did not make 
> any difference after restarting the network.  I then tried rebooting 
> the guest but then the 'bridge' module is not loaded again.  Is the 
> 'bridge' module necessary?  I thought I had read where this was no 
> longer necessary for guest bridging.
>
The only way I can get bridged networking to work in the F12beta guest 
is by selecting "Hypervisor default" when adding Network device.  If I 
select "virtio" it fails.

-Gerry