[fedora-virt] Migrating a WinXP guest to F16

[Orion Poplawski]

On 03/16/2012 10:44 AM, Andrés García wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to migrate a WinXP to a new F16 install,
> from an old F12 machine but I have the problem that
> networking doesn't work.
>
> The guest sees the network card and I can ping it from the
> guest itself but it has no access to the external network
> through the bridge.
>
> Other virtual machines, both Fedora and Win7, created in
> the F16 box do work.
>
> I tried deleting the network card in the guest and creating
> a new one but the same thing happens.
>
> Any ideas?

I had similar issues and ultimately gave up.  Luckily in my case Office 2007 
with macros is working now in wine so I don't need the VM.  You might try 
changing the machine type to pc-0.12 in the libvirt qemu xml file.  That 
seemed to help a little.


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