On 04/18/2016 05:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2016-04-17 at 14:31 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I've been occasionally using a Windows 7 VM with the libvirt system
> for
> several months now and have had no problems up to now. However
> recently
> I've been getting error messages from Windows about the network being
> "unknown" and my shared host/guest volume is unavailable. On the most
> recent attempt I see:
>
> Virtual network 'default': NAT (Inactive)
>
> as the entry under the Network Source drop-down in Virtual Machine
> Manager's "Show Hardware Details" menu.
>
> This is most likely PEBKAC but I'd be grateful for a newbie's guide
> to
> how this stuff should be set up without straying too far from
> defaults.
> My goal is pretty simple: a bridged network to get shared folders
> with
> my Fedora 23 host and Internet client access from the guest.
I still have no idea how this happened, but I found the fix here:
http://ask.xmodulo.com/network-default-is-not-active.html
and it worked.
Have you tried rebooting since then? Does it still work? I don't think
you should have an ifcfg file for that interface as you don't want
NetworkManager interacting with it. If everything still works after
rebooting, then great. Otherwise, try removing that file.