I'm trying to get an Archlinux guest running on a Archlinux host.
Everything works except ethernet.
When I boot the host,
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# dmesg |tail
[ 8.265493] Bridge firewalling registered
[ 8.514547] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): virbr0: link is not ready
[ 8.645303] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
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Then I do
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# virsh -c lxc:/// start gitolite
Domain gitolite started
# dmesg |tail
[ 348.793398] device veth0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 348.793553] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): veth0: link is not ready
[ 348.997973] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): veth0: link becomes ready
[ 348.997998] virbr0: topology change detected, propagating
[ 348.998001] virbr0: port 1(veth0) entered forwarding state
[ 348.998008] virbr0: port 1(veth0) entered forwarding state
[ 348.998017] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): virbr0: link becomes ready
[ 349.784174] EXT4-fs (xvdg): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
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Then I enter the guest and do
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# ip link
5: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state
UP mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
link/ether 02:00:00:00:00:17 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
7: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode
DEFAULT
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
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So, eth0 exists. Now, still in the guest:
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# systemctl start dhcpcd@eth0
A dependency job for dhcpcd(a)eth0.service failed. See 'journalctl -xn' for
details.
# journalctl -xn
-- Logs begin at Sat 2013-01-19 10:50:45 UTC, end at Sat 2013-01-19
10:56:26 UTC
Jan 19 10:54:48 gitolite sudo[38]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened
for us
Jan 19 10:54:48 gitolite systemd[1]: Expecting device
sys-subsystem-net-devices-
-- Subject: Unit sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device has begun with
start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- Documentation:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog/7d495
--
-- Unit sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device has begun starting up.
Jan 19 10:56:18 gitolite systemd[1]: Job
sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device/s
Jan 19 10:56:18 gitolite systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device
sys-subsystem-
-- Subject: Unit sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- Documentation:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog/be02c
--
-- Unit sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device has failed.
--
-- The result is timeout.
Jan 19 10:56:18 gitolite systemd[1]: Dependency failed for dhcpcd on eth0.
-- Subject: Unit dhcpcd(a)eth0.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- Documentation:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/catalog/be02c
--
-- Unit dhcpcd(a)eth0.service has failed.
--
-- The result is dependency.
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At this point, nothing new in dmesg.
Even though ip link should a eth0 device, the
sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device has failed?
I don't understand this.
This is libvirt 1.0.1 in linux 2.6.11. I tried with both systemd 197 and
(thinking that recent changes with device naming could be the problem) with
196. It didn't work on either.
The domain configuration is:
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<domain type='lxc'>
<name>gitolite</name>
<uuid>3122bf1d-11bb-0dd8-be64-7e352b3f8694</uuid>
<memory unit='KiB'>262144</memory>
<currentMemory unit='KiB'>262144</currentMemory>
<vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
<os>
<type arch='x86_64'>exe</type>
<init>/sbin/init</init>
</os>
<clock offset='utc'/>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>restart</on_crash>
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/lib/libvirt/libvirt_lxc</emulator>
<filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
<source dir='/mnt/gitolite'/>
<target dir='/'/>
</filesystem>
<interface type='network'>
<mac address='02:00:00:00:00:17'/>
<source network='default'/>
</interface>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='lxc' port='0'/>
</console>
</devices>
</domain>
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I also tried using bridged networking configuration but I see the same
problem.
What could be causing this? Any ideas?
Thanks,
Marco