[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#643281: libvirt-bin: virtual networks no longer created

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:09:08 +0100
Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 03:19:13PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Package: libvirt-bin
> > Version: 0.9.4-2
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Something is broken in current version of libvirt. It no longer creates
> > the default network.  The error log in /var/log/libvirt/libvirt.log is:
> 
> Please provide the command you use to start the network. Is this still
> broken for you in 0.9.7? 
>

Current version in wheezy is 0.9.6-2?


> > 
> > 14:56:05.587: 2201: info : libvirt version: 0.9.4
> > 14:56:05.587: 2201: error : virConnectNumOfInterfaces:9173 : this function is not supported by the connection driver: virConnectNumOfInterfaces
> > 14:56:08.474: 2201: error : qemuNetworkIfaceConnect:210 : internal error Network 'default' is not active.
> > 
> > Looking at the libvirt source, it looks like the new version uses netcf to
> > do configuration and netcf is not in Debian.
> 
> We don't use netcf in Debian. The above messages are hamrless and only
> indicate that you didn't start the network (or set it to autostart).
> Cheers,

I haven't had problems now, looks like my configuration was incorrect and
not autostarting the default network.