virt-manager cannot select shared physical device when configuring network
I use puppet to keep my machines in sync with each other. Our default configuration has haldaemon and messagebus (dbus) off. I ran into a problem when I tried to create a new vm and there was no option to use the shared phyical device (the bridge)
In order for virt-manager to see the bridge, I needed to have haldaemon and messagebus turned on. Silly problem, but I couldn’t find the answer without using strace myself…hope that helps someone.
September 8th, 2009 at 20:34
Im very GRATEFULL, this has been irritating me for a long time,
my workaround has been to manipulate files by hand, works but not nice :-)
Johan
September 24th, 2009 at 06:54
Had the same problem. Thanks for the tip!
January 28th, 2010 at 09:02
thanks that solved my problem.
im curious to see how did you find that with strace
please could you add this here.
January 28th, 2010 at 11:31
I started up virt-manager with strace
strace -o /tmp/virt-manager.trace -f virt-manager
I went through the install to the point of networking and then killed the strace and looked at the trace file.
There was a connect near the end pointing to dbus that obviously was failing
6370 connect(14, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=”/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket”…}, 33) = 0
after that it was pretty simple to figure out that hal needed to be on to talk to dbus…
hope that helps.
January 29th, 2010 at 00:43
thanks for this trick
February 25th, 2010 at 21:31
I got same error. After a lot serch I found the same answer. There is a tip RH Kbase.
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-19071