Description of problem: When running network commands (eg. using http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_command ), these can fail if they access a public service on the 10.x.x.x network. For example, if trying to run 'yum update' and if yum has been configured to use a yum server or proxy which is within the local network and therefore has a 10.x.x.x address. This happens because inside the appliance we use qemu's userspace network to talk from daemon to host library, and qemu's userspace network by default is set to use the 10.x.x.x address space for its own purposes. Proposed solution is to switch to using link local addresses, see: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3927 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libguestfs 1.3.9 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run 'sh "yum -y update"' Actual results: Fails if the network command has to access any network service which resolves to 10.x.x.x address. Expected results: Should not fail. Additional info:
Upstream: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=commitdiff;h=fbf29976b33a69c64dc7847c54454bf2cfa5fde6