Description of problem: Installed F17 x86_64 in a VM on RHEL 6.2 host system using virtio-net and the host system is using bridging. During installation there were numerous package download failures and hitting retry enough resulted in the package getting downloaded. Post-install the network is only staying up for a few seconds at a time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F17 tree as of 2012-2-23 NetworkManager-0.9.3-0.2.git20120215.fc17 kernel-3.3.0-0.rc3.git7.2.fc17 How reproducible: 1 out of 1 attempt on RHEL 6.2 host (happens continously) Observed it happen one time during installation of F17 tree as of 2012-2-22 during install to a F14 host with bridged networking, post install that guest seems fine. Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot up system and log in; network constantly goes up and down. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I also tried shutting down the guest, changing the network interface type to e1000 and restarted the guest and got the same problem.
Lots of similar problems disappeared with NetworkManager-0.9.3.997-0.7.fc17 from updates-testing repository or before. Please test.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 796837 ***