Chris,

2018-06-03 10:51 GMT+02:00 Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>:


> virt-manager has a way to create networks, I have one called
> "vm_network" which uses NAT, I think that might be a default thing, and
> it seems to work.
>
> When you create a virtual machine, you should be able to select to use a
> network. If I look at an existing machine I have, I see a "NIC ..."
> device, which uses the "vm_network".
>
> If you've got all this, it could be that the networking isn't getting
> started in the virtual machine...
>

I discovered that virt-manager has a  "connection settings" section and a
"virtual machine details" section

I fumbled with the 2 and somehow I stumbled into a working configuration,
also along the lines of your suggestions

So now I have a working Ubuntu Xenial installation inside a virtual machine

I'm not sure I'd be able to reproduce this configuration, should I want to
but I guess I have to live with that

It's a progress anyway

Thank you