Cannot start VM with error “no network with matching name ‘default'”
Posted on In QAI update libvirt version and want to start VM with the new libvirt tools but I failed as follows.
> sudo virsh start kvm1
error: Failed to start domain kvm1
error: Network not found: no network with matching name 'default'
It seems that the default ‘virbr0’ is missing after I update libvirt so I solve this problem like following.
1, copy a ‘virtbr0’ config file from another server with same configuration.
$ sudo virsh net-dumpxml default
<network>
<name>default</name>
<uuid>afd4e923-66cb-45ca-9120-1e46e72899a3</uuid>
<forward mode='nat'>
<nat>
<port start='1024' end='65535'/>
</nat>
</forward>
<bridge name='virbr0' stp='on' delay='0'/>
<ip address='192.168.122.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'>
<dhcp>
<range start='192.168.122.2' end='192.168.122.254'/>
</dhcp>
</ip>
</network>
2, remove the uuid in above configuration file and create it in the problem server.
# virsh net-create default.xml
3, Check the virtual bridge in the problem server.
# virsh net-list
Name State Autostart Persistent
----------------------------------------------------------
default active no no
Now, everything goes well.
You may also happen to following problem when you want to start default.
# virsh net-create ./default.xml
error: Failed to create network from ./default.xml
error: internal error: Failed to initialize a valid firewall backend
Do following to solve it:
# apt-get install firewalld
# apt-get install ebtables
# apt-get install iptables
# /etc/init.d/libvirt-bin restart
The last step is to restart libvirtd.
References:
[1] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8351/how-to-create-a-dupe-of-a-kvm-libvirt-virt-manager-vm/33584#33584
[2] http://libvirt.org/sources/virshcmdref/html/sect-net-create.html
[3] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=198744