On 11/13/2013 08:44 AM, Greg Ward wrote:
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013, at 07:17 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 11/11/2013 05:04 PM, Greg Ward wrote:
2) In the FAQ, under "networking is unavailable in virt-manager / virsh - libvirt's default network fails to start", it says "Here is a list of the networking-related packages that need to be installed for libvirt networking to work properly:". But it does not say if those packages are supposed to be installed on the host or the guest! It might be obvious to you, but it isn't to me.
URL of the FAQ page with the missing information?
Oops! It's question 1.3.11, at http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/FAQ#networking_is_unavailable_in_virt-manager_....
Edited now to add "on the host" in the appropriate location.
A snippet to add to the existing <domain> XML that you would see using 'virsh edit' (or with the virDomainDefineXML() API).
OK. What's <domain>? "virsh list" doesn't list anything, despite the fact that I still have one VM visible in the virt-manager GUI.
Ah. First step then is to make sure you are connecting to the same libvirtd instance as virt-manager is (by default, virsh run as yourself tries to connect to qemu:///session, while virt-manager tries to connect to qemu:///system). Double-check what 'virsh uri' outputs to see if you are connecting to the session instance (which would explain not seeing anything); and if so, use 'virsh -c qemu:///system list --all' to see the difference (the virsh man page also documents some environment variables you can set to avoid having to type -c ... all the time). The <domain> I'm referring to is the top-level element in the XML that you would get by 'virsh -c qemu:///system dumpxml $dom', or which pulls up in the editor for 'virsh -c qemu:///system edit $dom'.
(FWIW, consider me a libvirt novice, despite trying out virt-manager every year or so for the last 3 years or so. I've just never had much luck with it. I finally got annoyed enough to dig into the docs a little bit, which just got me more annoyed, so here I am.)
Please keep at it, and please keep giving us feedback - it's insights like these that will make it easier to improve the docs for other first-time users. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org