[fedora-virt] SOLVED Re: No network with Guests F17_Host fully updated, No F18 preview.

[Frank Murphy]

On 23/10/12 20:20, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 01:58 PM, Frank Murphy wrote:
>> On 23/10/12 18:40, Ján ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
>>> You need to enable ipv4 forwarding.
>>>
>>> Edit /etc/sysctl.conf and then run:
>>>
>>> sudo sysctl -p
>>>
>>>          SAL
>>
>> This seems to have been it.
>> Thougth don't remember having done on F15\16 before.
>>
>
> You shouldn't have to, libvirt should be setting that for you. Maybe you were
> always restarting the network service after restarting libvirtd? Looking at
> the init script, it definitely reloads sysctl _and_ seems to explicitly turn
> off ip_forward.
>
> - Cole
>

On the host if ever needed to, due to some nfs tantrum.
it would alway be "service network restart && service libvirtd restart"
in that order.

I will set sysctl.conf chattr +i, to prevent me shooting myself.


-- 
Regards,
Frank
"Jack of all, fubars"