New subject: [Users] oVirt 3.3/F19 - Windows guest unable to access network

Friday, 20 September 2013

Hi,

Just following up on this issue. Turns out the network problems were being caused by the
bond0 interface.

The initial configuration was two NICs teamed as bond0, which was then bridged to the
ovirtmgmt interface. With this configuration, RHEL guests could access the network
normally but Windows guests (XP, 7, 2008 R2) could not. After deactivating the bond0
interface and bridging one of the NICs directly to the ovirtmgmt interface, both RHEL and
Windows guests have fully functioning networks.

I am not sure why exactly the bond0 interface was not working as intended. The initial
configuration had the mode as balance-rr, is this known to cause problems? My intention
was to have the mode as balance-alb however the bonding driver in F19 seems to completely
ignore any BONDING_OPTS settings in the ifcfg-bond0 file. Attempts to change the bonding
mode directly via /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/mode repeatedly failed due to 'the bond
having slaves', even after the bond had been taken down via ifconfig. I was not able
to remove the bond0 definition either, even after removing the ifcfg-bond0 file and the
modprobe.d alias.

Is there a recommended/tested bonding configuration HOWTO for oVirt on F19?

Joop: Responses as follows:
 - Windows firewall was disabled in each Windows VM
 - Changing the CPU setting and starting the VM directly on the host via QEMU (i.e. not
through oVirt) did not seem to affect the behavior

Thanks,

Chris

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Subject: Re: [Users] oVirt 3.3/F19 - Windows guest unable to access
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On 18-9-2013 23:08, SULLIVAN, Chris (WGK) wrote:
...

 Hi,

 I'm having network issues with a Windows Server 2008 R2 guest running
 on an F19 host. The guest has a static configuration and is able to
 ping itself and the host it is running on, however cannot ping the
 gateway, any other hosts on the local network, or external hosts. A
 RHEL 6.4 guest on the same host with a similar static configuration
 works normally.

 Iptables/firewalld on the host are switched off and the network
 definitions in the XML for each VM (Windows/RHEL) are the same. The
 virtio network drivers are installed in the guest. The guest was
 created from a Win 2008 R2 template, which was created from a VM
 imported from oVirt 3.2. Software versions below.

 Just to be sure, iptables/firewalld!=Windows Firewall. Is there a rule
in the windows firewall to allow ping or is it disabled?

...
 Are there any manual configuration steps required on the host to
 support Windows guests? Are there any particular diagnostic steps I
 could take to try and narrow down the cause?

 Don't think so, just converted a Windows2008R2 datacenter guest from
Vmware to oVirt and it ran, after adding virtio drivers or using e1000
and/or ide disks.

...
 Versions:

 -oVirt 3.3.0-4

 -F19 3.10.11-200

 -QEMU 1.4.2-9

 -Libvirt 1.1.2-1

 -VDSM 4.12.1-2

 -virtio-win 0.1-52

 Your problem looks like the problem Ren? had with his Solaris guest, its
a recent thread. Turned out that setting -cpu Nehalem by ovirt caused
networking in the Solaris guest to fail.
Don't think this is your problem though since lots of people run Windows
guest without problems.

Regards,

Joop

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