Bug 240922

Summary: KVM needs ip_forward enabled
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jeremy West <jwest>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Daniel Veillard <veillard>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Version: 9CC: briemers, gjansen, jeevanullas, jhutar, libbe, matt_domsch, redhat-bugzilla, simon, sputhenp, virt-maint, xen-maint
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Description Jeremy West 2007-05-22 21:24:26 UTC
Description of problem:
The default networking with KVM will not work properly unless ip_foward is
enabled.  There's currently no instruction or prompt to let you know this.

The advanced user is going to take a look at his routing and figure this out,
but the casual user will be left feeling like kvm sucks.  Can we get something
built into virt-manager to enable this?

Comment 1 Deependra Singh Shekhawat 2007-06-12 03:03:24 UTC
Possible solution:
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward on Host.

To make things permanent in /etc/sysctl.conf
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

This bug remains in Fedora 7 gold release. Do we see any possible permanent
solution other than the ip_forward trick done manually. 

Thanks.


Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2007-06-12 11:37:54 UTC
The libvirt daemon does  enable ip_forward whenever a virtual network is
created. There is one network defined automatically upon RPM installation, so
libvirt is normally enabling ip_forward right away.

Now the /etc/sysctl.conf file also has an explicit rule to disable ip_forward,
but this file is loaded by the 'network' init script prior to libvirt running so
its not ordinarily a problem. Except that I just discovered NetworkManager's
init script will load sysctl.conf *again* overiding what libvirt changed :-(


Comment 3 Deependra Singh Shekhawat 2007-06-12 17:06:37 UTC
Hi,

Today I installed the new libvirt 0.2.3 on Fedora 7. And I booted a live cd from
within virt-manager (using KVM). And it booted well also the ip forwarding thing
seem to have worked though I didn't had ip_forward in the host. I was able to
access internet from within the live cd guest (192.168.122.0/24) network.

That means this bug is solved or it means something else ?

Thanks

Comment 4 Edmond 2007-06-17 22:58:34 UTC
Hi, just want to report that I am seeing the same problem.

After I enable ip_forward in /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot, networking working.

My guest OS is a Win XP SP2.

Comment 5 Simon Karpen 2008-01-19 22:54:07 UTC
This problem is still there in Rawhide on 1/19/08 (6 months later). 

At a minimum, virt-manager should pop up a warning that guest networking will
fail without ip_forward set. 

Comment 6 Geert Jansen 2008-04-27 12:36:55 UTC
This problem is still present in the Fedora 9 preview release (27/04/2008),
almost 12 months after the issue was reported.

As this issue is impacting every user that is running KVM this has a high impact
and really should be fixed asap.

Comment 7 Peter Gordon 2008-05-07 00:36:23 UTC
*** Bug 371571 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 02:55:55 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 9 Bill C. Riemers 2008-09-04 06:21:16 UTC
This is still a problem in Fedora 9.  Although there are also other networking bugs I will report separately.

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Comment 11 Jan Hutař 2009-06-10 07:07:08 UTC
Hi all. Can you still see this issue? I do not see it now in F10, but I'm not sure if I have configured something in the past of it just started to work.

Comment 12 Geert Jansen 2009-06-10 07:41:00 UTC
I have not seen this bug anymore since F10. Virtual networks set up with virt-manager now work out of the box.

Comment 13 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 13:59:37 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.