At work I have a script that provisions a vm for use by employees. One step in this process is to fetch hadoop, which we happen to get from cloudera. I noticed the script always failed when I used libvirt's default networking (nat) but worked fine when I used user mode networking. My instinct is that this is related to (potentially uncommon) network traffic from the server in question, and the iptables rules added by libvirt.

Repro steps:

1. Create a vm (I tested with linux and freebsd guests) using default libvirt networking settings (<interface type='network'>).

2. wget, curl, fetch: http://archive.cloudera.com/one-click-install/lucid/cdh3-repository_1.0_all.deb

Observe it will "hang". If you use strace you'll see it block on the select call.

My particular host is using a virbr0 network bridge, with the following iptables rules:

$ iptables -S -v -Z

-P INPUT ACCEPT -c 404828 91071544

-P FORWARD ACCEPT -c 0 0

-P OUTPUT ACCEPT -c 402905 45139291

-A INPUT -i virbr0 -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -c 26 1703 -j ACCEPT

-A INPUT -i virbr0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -c 0 0 -j ACCEPT

-A INPUT -i virbr0 -p udp -m udp --dport 67 -c 70 22960 -j ACCEPT

-A INPUT -i virbr0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 67 -c 0 0 -j ACCEPT

-A FORWARD -d 192.168.122.0/24 -o virbr0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -c 1191 1495856 -j ACCEPT

-A FORWARD -s 192.168.122.0/24 -i virbr0 -c 853 64266 -j ACCEPT

-A FORWARD -i virbr0 -o virbr0 -c 6 1968 -j ACCEPT

-A FORWARD -o virbr0 -c 0 0 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable

-A FORWARD -i virbr0 -c 0 0 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable

Zeroing chain `INPUT'

Zeroing chain `FORWARD'

Zeroing chain `OUTPUT'

I'm not sure how best to diagnose this problem. Any ideas or tips?

Thanks!

John M.