On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:35:39PM +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:34:54 +0100 Daniel P. Berrange wrote > >The networking options depend on whether you're running as root or a > >normal user. > > Your clarification seems to be confirmed by the fact that if I run > virt-manager icon when connected as a normal user into the gnome > session, I get the prompt for the root password, so I presume actually > I then run it as root and I don't get the SLIRP networking option. > Probably this is intended by design with the aim not to have normal > users runnign VMs and possibly exhausting the host..... > > Suppose I want so to run as root, how to provide IP to the guest? > it seems qemu dhcp server doesn't provide one.... I tried both > possible configurations... The virtual networks setup by libvirt run a dnsmasq process to provide DNS + DHCP services to the guest. That said there's a missing Requires: line in the libvirt RPM currently in rawhide so there's a good chance you're missing dnsmasq. yum install it & 'service libvirtd restart' or a reboot should correct that. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list