[fedora-virt] Guest networking problem

[Adam Huffman]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Dor Laor <dlaor at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/31/2010 07:06 PM, Adam Huffman wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Tom Horsley<horsley1953 at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:02:17 +0000
>>> Adam Huffman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there a way of turning on extra logging to try and see what is (or
>>>> isn't) happening?
>
> What's the nice type used? rtl/e1000/virtio (driver ver?)?
>

It's using the default - Realtek.

>>>
>>> I had similar stuff happen to machines I run due to the hopeless
>>> timekeeping in virtual machines. The clock gets so far off in
>>> the guest that it doesn't bother to renew the lease at what
>>> the host thinks is the scheduled time (or vice-veras, I forget
>>> which way the time was drifting).
>
> What's the guest? For winXp you should use the -rtc driftfix=slew
>

It is XP, though I'm not sure this is the cause - the clock time isn't
skewed too badly.

It appears to be related to iptables.  If I add some rules to permit
access to Samba on the host, the guest networking fails.  Is there an
"approved" way of permitting such Samba access?

Adam

>>
>> Thanks for the tip, though that doesn't seem to be the case for me.
>>
>> Adam
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