I posted the following message a few days ago. Does anyone have a minute to look at the output of the troubleshooting tools and advise if they appear correct or if anything stands out as a problem? Or is there another valid direction to go in to find out why the network fails? I'm really stumped here and if there is no other direction to go in I'm dead in the water. So should I just start playing taps? "I am running Fedora 16 64bit and installed libvirt. I have the VM running with arm emulation with this one issue I can't figure out. I used Virtual Machine Manager to manage the VM and can access its console there. The Ethernet appears to be eth1 and the guest can set an IP on it etc. However, I cannot see any traffic from the Host when dumping any of the interfaces. I've tried several combinations of network setups using the GUI and none appear to work. Optimally I'd like to bridge to my primary interface (em1) and be able to pull an address and talk directly to my network so I can download packages etc while in the VM. I tried setting up networking in that fashion with: Source Device : em1 with macvtap Device Model: Hypervisor Default Source Mode: Bridge but alas I cannot pull dhcp nor can I set a static address and ping other interfaces on the network. It also appears that every time I start the VM it creates another vnetX interface. One of the troubleshooting pages I came across listed all the tools but nothing about what to look for: 1) virsh net-list --all Name State Autostart ----------------------------------------- default active yes 2) brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces virbr0 8000.52540029e6c7 yes virbr0-nic vnet0 vnet1 vnet2 vnet3 vnet4 3) sysctl net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables sysctl net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 1 4) iptables -L -v -n Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 767K packets, 189M bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 0 0 ACCEPT udp -- virbr0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:53 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- virbr0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:53 0 0 ACCEPT udp -- virbr0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:67 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- virbr0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:67 Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 0 0 ACCEPT all -- * virbr0 0.0.0.0/0 192.168.122.0/24 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED 0 0 ACCEPT all -- virbr0 * 192.168.122.0/24 0.0.0.0/0 0 0 ACCEPT all -- virbr0 virbr0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 0 0 REJECT all -- * virbr0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-port-unreachable 0 0 REJECT all -- virbr0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-port-unreachable Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 532K packets, 79M bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 5) ps -ef | grep dnsmasq nobody 12382 1 0 Sep11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --strict-order --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/var/run/libvirt/network/default.pid --conf-file= --except-interface lo --listen-address 192.168.122.1 --dhcp-range 192.168.122.2,192.168.122.254 --dhcp-leasefile=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/default.leases --dhcp-lease-max=253 --dhcp-no-override 6) ifconfig -a em1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:B9:48:2B:BA inet addr:10.45.212.46 Bcast:10.45.212.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::219:b9ff:fe48:2bba/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:19048593 errors:95686 dropped:154 overruns:0 frame:98437 TX packets:10619346 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:12559170813 (11.6 GiB) TX bytes:1700214519 (1.5 GiB) Interrupt:16 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2978074 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2978074 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:847201395 (807.9 MiB) TX bytes:847201395 (807.9 MiB) macvtap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:AC:7F:0C inet6 addr: fe80::5054:ff:feac:7f0c/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:294814 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:42804350 (40.8 MiB) TX bytes:468 (468.0 b) virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:29:E6:C7 inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:621 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:43217 (42.2 KiB) virbr0-nic Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:29:E6:C7 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) vnet0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:54:00:AC:7F:0C BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:38159 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1995337 (1.9 MiB) vnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:54:00:AC:7F:0C BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:37299 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1949439 (1.8 MiB) vnet2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:54:00:AC:7F:0C BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:36154 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1888745 (1.8 MiB) vnet3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:54:00:AC:7F:0C BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:35068 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1832375 (1.7 MiB) vnet4 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:54:00:AC:7F:0C BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:207 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:10896 (10.6 KiB) 7) cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 1 Any help I can get to resolve this would be greatly appreciated. Very frustrating... Larry