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

[Guido Günther]

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? 

> 
> 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,
 -- Guido