Showing posts with label kvm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kvm. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

SELinux KVM QEMU errors

I'm getting close to disabling SELinux under F10. I'm trying to setup a bridged network so that my windows guest can have full access to the network. Windows runs fine in qemu_kvm using the "-net nic -net user" options. My problem is that in bridge mode it uses "-net nic,macaddr=11:22:33:44:55:66 -net tap". When I try to run the virtual machine I get this message "warning: could not configure /dev/net/tun: no virtual network emulation".

Update: I disabled SELinux, but that didn't fix the problem. I got rid of the error by configuring the tap at least somewhat correctly. I still can't get the bridge to work.

Update: My virtual machines now work with bridged networking. The MAC address that I created above doesn't work. You need to make it something else. Use the networking information on this page as a guide to setting it up. I'm using the /etc/qemu-ifup. I use this script to create 3 taps corresponding to three virtual machines so I can run them at the same time. I don't let my scripts for the virtual machine startup run the /etc/qemu-ifup script. If you're running SELinux make sure that you apply the proper labels to the image.

I'm running a machine with 8GBs of RAM on an AMD Phenom II 840 processor. I'm getting good performance with it. I did upgrage the Fedora 10 kvm module to one from Fedora 11 development repos so that it wouldn't have so many problems with audio.