Bug 235961

Right, the general problem is that we had to pick an IP range for the default
network, and there's always a chance that would conflict with a host's
configured network.

Alternatives I can think of:

  - Try and automatically determine an IP range for the network by looking
    at the configured IP/netmask on system interfaces before starting the
    network

  - Just refuse to start a network if it conflicts with an already configured
    interface

Just to be clear - the problem was seen here by having libvirt installed in a
guest, right? There's nothing wrong with that when you think about it ... you
might e.g. run qemu guests attached to a virtual network in a xen guest, and
we'd masquerade the traffic before leaving the guest ...

The second point of checking if a network conflicts with the host is probably
something we should do anyway - even for non-default networks.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Just to be clear - the problem was seen here by having libvirt installed in a
> guest, right? There's nothing wrong with that when you think about it ... you
> might e.g. run qemu guests attached to a virtual network in a xen guest, and
> we'd masquerade the traffic before leaving the guest ...

Yep.  I threw virt-manager + qemu + kvm into the manifest for the live DVD I'm
creating for the Summit and do most of my testing of the live images with kvm.

And checking for conflicts is going to be especially hard with NetworkManager as
the network may not (won't) be up when libvirtd starts and does the network config.

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Re-opening; nothing has changed on this front

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Nothing has changed on this front, still applies to Fedora 12

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Fixed upstream now:

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=a83fe2c23efad190a1e00e448f607fe032650fd6

libvirt-0.7.1-18.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libvirt-0.7.1-18.fc12

libvirt-0.7.1-18.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update libvirt'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libvirt-0.7.1-18.fc12

libvirt-0.7.1-18.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.