I created a new network based on the default network. However the network is unreachable to the XEN guest. I used net-dumpxml to print the "default" xml. I changed the network XML network name, bridge name, and uuid and successfully created a new network. I replaced source network attribute in the domain creation XML to point to the new network name. However, the guest can not properly initialize eth0 because the new network is unreachable. It tries to ping the ip assigned to the new bridge but fails. The same guest created with the default network works fine, i.e. it can access the network. This what network restart looks like on the guest (I'm not sure if this will be visible on the forum): (Embedded image moved to file: pic26442.jpg) This is a copy of the network XML: <network> <name>test-net1</name> <uuid>7cfbfa88-542f-44c7-bbc1-3e19f67d8ca6</uuid> <forward mode='nat'/> <bridge name='test-br1' stp='on' forwardDelay='0' /> <ip address='192.168.122.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'> <dhcp> <range start='192.168.122.2' end='192.168.122.254' /> </dhcp> </ip> </network> This the interface segment domain creation XML: <interface type='network'> <!--source network='default'/--> <source network='test-net1'/> <script path='vif-bridge'/> </interface> This is the relevant ifconfig on host: .... test-br1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:81 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:9768 (9.5 KiB) TX bytes:5018 (4.9 KiB) vif13.0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:90 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:194 errors:0 dropped:2771 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:32 RX bytes:11136 (10.8 KiB) TX bytes:10122 (9.8 KiB) virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:365 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3291 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:34127 (33.3 KiB) TX bytes:512877 (500.8 KiB) This the brctl show output: bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br1 8000.000000000000 no eth1 8000.001a64a12e56 no peth1 test-br1 8000.feffffffffff yes vif13.0 virbr0 8000.000000000000 yes What am I missing? Thanks in advance. -Kenneth Nagin