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benibilme

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Registered: 2020-06-03

Posts: 41

libvirt firewalld: can not access local guest virtual machines

Hello,

I am running a qemu arch virtual machine in arch system with libvirt. I am using it for various test and learning purposes.  I have installed the image via vagrant but I am not using vagrant for start, stop etc. actions since it is dead slow. Previously installing firewalld I was able to ping/access the guest machine via my terminal. After firewalld installation and following configuration I can not ping/access the guest virtual machine. eth0 is the real interface of the host (physical) machine, virbr1 is the special network created by vagrant on libvirt.  I can login the the guest virtual machine via virt-manager and ping my host machine and network.

3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 98:ee:cb:be:eb:8a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enp0s20f0u3u3
    inet 192.168.1.10/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth1
    valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: virbr1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 52:54:00:37:b8:b4 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
     inet 192.168.121.1/24 brd 192.168.121.255 scope global virbr1
    valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Route settings on the host machine are as follows

default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 proto static
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.10
192.168.121.0/24 dev virbr1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.121.1

I have added eth0 to public zone, which is the default zone, in firewalld. Public zone settings as follows.

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --list-all
public (active)
  target: default
  icmp-block-inversion: no
  interfaces: eth1
  sources:
  services: dhcpv6-client
  ports:
  protocols:
  forward: yes
  masquerade: no
  forward-ports:
  source-ports:
  icmp-blocks:
  rich rules:

I have added the interface  virtbr1 to libvirt zone which is  created by libvirt package during installation.

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=libvirt --list-all
libvirt (active)
  target: ACCEPT
  icmp-block-inversion: no
  interfaces: virbr1
  sources:
  services: dhcp dhcpv6 dns libvirt ssh tftp
  ports:
  protocols: icmp ipv6-icmp
  forward: yes
  masquerade: no
  forward-ports:
  source-ports:
  icmp-blocks:
  rich rules:
  rule priority="32767" reject

I am also using home zone with following settings

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=home --list-all
home (active)
  target: default
  icmp-block-inversion: no
  interfaces:
  sources: 192.168.1.0/24
  services: dhcpv6-client samba-client ssh
  ports:
  protocols:
  forward: yes
  masquerade: no
  forward-ports:
  source-ports:
  icmp-blocks:
  rich rules:

In summary:

Currently  I can not ping or access the guest machine, but guest machine can ping/access the network. What will be proper configuration for this?

darkbasic

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Registered: 2015-06-22

Posts: 33

Re: libvirt firewalld: can not access local guest virtual machines

Did you manage to solve your issue by any chance? I have a very similar problem: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/lib … 14021.html

benibilme

Member

Registered: 2020-06-03

Posts: 41

Re: libvirt firewalld: can not access local guest virtual machines

Hello,

Currently I am far away from my machine and can not access it, but as far as I can remember,  I had to define policy to route traffic between zones for incoming and outgoing traffic. You can find sample polices at /usr/lib/firewalld/policies which are created by libvirt.

I hope it helps.