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summerer

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-01-25

Posts: 54

virt-manager: NAT no dhcp/network access

As I don't have the time to write this up properly for the Wiki, I just want to keep this info for anyone struggling with NAT and virt-manager.

It seems that using plain nftables without proper configuration prevents DHCP to work on virt-manager guest using NAT.
As a solution one can install firewalld (and reboot). After that, NAT just works.

Hope this helps anyone out who might not be able to figure out why virt-manager network just doesn't work without any error messages.

Zod

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From: Hoosiertucky

Registered: 2019-03-10

Posts: 636

Re: virt-manager: NAT no dhcp/network access

technically, , while this is correct there are alternatives.

ebtables is one,  you need to read about and understand the software requirements of what your trying to do.

Read about libvirt here

Last edited by Zod (2020-07-24 21:19:11)