On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 12:01 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:

Hi,

So I know like many problems this type of thing will go away once gnome-software is a useful mechanism to install applications and we don't need to have a massive pile of apps in comps, but:

It's really catastrophic to install Boxes by default in virtual machines because it drags in libvirt which sets up a guest network at the default 192.168.122 mask which means your networking doesn't work until you either reconfigure the host or the guest:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811967

So...Boxes seems specialized enough to be a secondary installation. Can we do that, since the alternative is dubious hacks at the libvirt level?

FWIW, I've been vaguely following that bug, but I have never once actually hit it in the last few releases; networking in my VM test installs has always worked fine. I guess I assumed it was pretty much fixed now and only affecting some weird corner case. I don't think I adjusted my host's network config to avoid the bug, or anything - virbr0 is still on 192.168.122.1 .