Oops.  Didn't mean to reply off-list.

When I used the technique you described, I get the network alive and kicking but can't seem to get the VMs themselves started.  I don't know if it's an issue with koan starting the vm or with my libvirtd dnsmasq config. 

I can't seem to see if the koan process is working correctly because the console output from virt-manager is a blank screen. When I use virsh to connect and try to reach the console, it hangs uninterruptedly.  Do you (or anyone) know if this is because the network is still awry or if it is likely to be something else?

Thanks again for all your help,
M

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:57, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@redhat.com> wrote:
Mykel Alvis wrote:
Certainly.

::::::::::::::
/tmp/ifcfg-eth0
::::::::::::::
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
#BOOTPROTO=static
#IPADDR=10.151.37.241
#NETMASK=255.255.255.0
#DNS1=10.151.37.253
TYPE=Bridge
NM_MANAGED=No
::::::::::::::
/tmp/ifcfg-peth0
::::::::::::::
DEVICE=peth0
ONBOOT=yes
BRIDGE=eth0
HWADDR=00:1A:4B:45:65:69
NM_MANAGED=No

I think it's odd that I reboot the system with these configs eth0 comes alive with a dhcp address, so ifconfig gives me a listing with the eth0, lo and virbr0 devices, even though there's an ifcfg-peth0.  I don't know what order things get initialized in, so I don't know if it's relevant.

A 'service network restart' gives me the same errors a I previously posted.

This box is a somewhat minimal install, so if there's some package that's essential for this to work I may not have installed it.

Thanks!

Mykel

Hmm, that looks about right.  I had some problems setting mine up in F10 recently too, so I ended up just keeping eth0 as the actual interface name and making a new file for the bridge... though I'm not sure that will help you out.

Not sure if you meant to reply off-list, but here's mine:

[mdehaan@mdehaan cobbler]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
# Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection
NM_CONTROLLED=no
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=00:24:7e:10:f9:44
ONBOOT=yes
BRIDGE=london

[mdehaan@mdehaan cobbler]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
# Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection
DEVICE=london
NM_CONTROLLED=no
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Bridge
[mdehaan@mdehaan

The names of the files actually aren't that important, I named the other one "eth1" just because "london" wasn't something the service script could find.  I was being silly in wanting to use "london bridge" in my demos.  I have Network Manager still on but it's only managing my wireless card.

Apparenlty it's NM_CONTROLLED, not NM_MANAGED, which might play a role.  If you are running Fedora anyway, if it's not there, it's not there.

--Michael