[libvirt] networking

[James Bardin]

Cole Robinson wrote:
> What virt-manager version are you using?
> Distro?

libvirt: 0.4.0-2ubuntu8
virt-manager: 0.5.3-0ubuntu10

Distro: Ubuntu 8.04.1 server x86_64

> Is there anything showing up in the shared device drop
> down (even if you can't select it?)
> 

The drop-down activates, but is empty.

> Also if you could attach ~/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log
> it might help.
> 

This group popped up a lot yesterday:

[Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:55:19 virt-manager 5811] WARNING (connection:494)
Unable to list active networks
[Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:55:19 virt-manager 5811] WARNING (connection:498)
Unable to list inactive networks
[Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:55:19 virt-manager 5811] ERROR (engine:158) Could
not refresh connection qemu:///system
<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> virConnectListDomainsID() failed Broken pipe
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 152, in _tick
    self.connections[uri]["connection"].tick()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 550, in
tick
    newActiveIDs = self.vmm.listDomainsID()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 795, in
listDomainsID
    if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virConnectListDomainsID()
failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: virConnectListDomainsID() failed Broken pipe


Here's the output when I try to add a new network device:

[Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:57:39 virt-manager 6673] ERROR (connection:158)
Unable to connect to HAL to list network devices: '%s'<class
'dbus.exceptions.DBusException'>
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Hal
was not provided by any .service files
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 144, in
detect_network_devices
    hal_object = self.bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.Hal',
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/Manager')
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/bus.py", line 244, in
get_object
    follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/proxies.py", line 241, in
__init__
    self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/bus.py", line 183, in
activate_name_owner
    self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/bus.py", line 281, in
start_service_by_name
    'su', (bus_name, flags)))
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/connection.py", line 607,
in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
[Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:57:47 virt-manager 6673] ERROR (console:106) Cannot
initialize notification
systemorg.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute
dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session



Thanks
-jim