Patrick O'Neill
2020-Feb-07 10:47 UTC
No DHCP on default network when guest has multiple interfaces
Hello, I am trying to boot a VM in libvirt that has 2 interfaces. The first interface is connected to the default network and the second connects to a bridge interface on the host. When the VM boots the first interface doesn't receive an IP address from DHCP. It works when the VM only has one interface though. If I login to the VM using virsh console I noticed that in NetworkManager the connection name and device are mixed [root@localhost ~]# nmcli con show NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE eth0 cc31f368-0a43-4c85-bd15-6aaa3ca23b3d ethernet eth1 If I run 'dhclient eth0' the interface gets an IP address from the default network as expected. [root@localhost ~]# dhclient eth0 [root@localhost ~]# ip a 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 52:54:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.122.10/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global dynamic eth0 valid_lft 3599sec preferred_lft 3599sec 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 52:54:00:48:e3:b8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fe48:e3b8/64 scope link noprefixroute valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever The VM is created using the following command virt-install --import --name ${VM_HOST_NAME} \ --memory 2048 --vcpus 2 --cpu host \ --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/${VM_HOST_NAME}.qcow2,format=qcow2,bus=virtio \ --network network=default \ --network bridge=bridge0,model=virtio \ --os-type=linux \ --os-variant=rhel7.6 \ --graphics none Any ideas what could cause this problem? The guest OS is CentOS 7.7 and the host is CentOS 8, but I have the same problem with a CentOS 7 hypervisor.
Michal Privoznik
2020-Feb-07 15:10 UTC
Re: No DHCP on default network when guest has multiple interfaces
On 2/7/20 11:47 AM, Patrick O'Neill wrote:> Hello, >I'm not sure, but I recall that some of the distros I played with asked DHCP to configure just one interface. Maybe you need to configure your guest to do DHCP for both interfaces? Michal