On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 12:56 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 04/18/2016 05:19 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2016-04-17 at 14:31 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > > I've been occasionally using a Windows 7 VM with the libvirt > > > system > > > for > > > several months now and have had no problems up to now. However > > > recently > > > I've been getting error messages from Windows about the network > > > being > > > "unknown" and my shared host/guest volume is unavailable. On the > > > most > > > recent attempt I see: > > > > > > Virtual network 'default': NAT (Inactive) > > > > > > as the entry under the Network Source drop-down in Virtual > > > Machine > > > Manager's "Show Hardware Details" menu. > > > > > > This is most likely PEBKAC but I'd be grateful for a newbie's > > > guide > > > to > > > how this stuff should be set up without straying too far from > > > defaults. > > > My goal is pretty simple: a bridged network to get shared folders > > > with > > > my Fedora 23 host and Internet client access from the guest. > > I still have no idea how this happened, but I found the fix here: > > > > http://ask.xmodulo.com/network-default-is-not-active.html > > > > and it worked. > > > Have you tried rebooting since then? Does it still work? I don't > think > you should have an ifcfg file for that interface as you don't want > NetworkManager interacting with it. If everything still works after > rebooting, then great. Otherwise, try removing that file. Good call. It failed again on rebooting. I removed the file and rebooted again and now it works. Is one supposed to know this by magic? I can't be the only one who's had this problem. I read the Release Notes every time I update the system and can't recall seeing it anywhere. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
