Boxes in the default install

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 12:01 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So I know like many problems this type of thing will go away once
> gnome-software is a useful mechanism to install applications and we
> don't need to have a massive pile of apps in comps, but:
> 
> It's really catastrophic to install Boxes by default in virtual machines
> because it drags in libvirt which sets up a guest network at the default
> 192.168.122 mask which means your networking doesn't work until you
> either reconfigure the host or the guest:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811967
> 
> So...Boxes seems specialized enough to be a secondary installation.  Can
> we do that, since the alternative is dubious hacks at the libvirt level?

FWIW, I've been vaguely following that bug, but I have never once
actually hit it in the last few releases; networking in my VM test
installs has always worked fine. I guess I assumed it was pretty much
fixed now and only affecting some weird corner case. I don't think I
adjusted my host's network config to avoid the bug, or anything - virbr0
is still on 192.168.122.1 .
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