Hi,

 

Since this week I am the proud member of a Unraid Server Basic setup and last night I wanted to setup a vm (ubuntu minimal 15.10).

 

At first I got a 192.168.122.xx IP address because I forgot to set the network bridge. I changed this in the network settings to yes and after a short hickup in my connection I got a confirmed yes in my settings but then I fired up the vm and a simple ifconfig gave me again a 192.168.122.xx IP.

 

I powered off the vm and again changed the network bridge setting to no and again to yes but no result. I setup a new vm which gave me also a 192.168.122 IP. I then rebooted the unraid server and again no result on all my vms. The network bridge setting says yes but the result is no. I looked in ethtool.txt logs but nothing related and no errors whatsoever.

 

Do I miss anything here or am I the proud owner of my first bug?

 

thanks in advance.

After you have enabled a network bridge under Settings->Network, you then need to change the VM Network settings to use the bridge you have just enabled.

Thanks! Didn't see that one..

 

It looks though it works for new vm's. The existing two vm's were kept at 192.168.122 but that doesn't bother me much, they were for testing purposes.

 

One step further ahead regarding my unraid setup.

Thanks! Didn't see that one..

 

It looks though it works for new vm's. The existing two vm's were kept at 192.168.122 but that doesn't bother me much, they were for testing purposes.

That surprises me unless they are configured with static IP addresses.  I have certainly successfuly switched existing VM's from using virtbr0 (the default built-in NAT style bridge) to br0 (the name I use for the bridge set up in the network settings)

 

Stopping and starting the VM may help, this forces a DHCP renewal.

 

Did that but in this case i am sure about that.

 

Being a technical (project) manager in IT for soms time now, I know mentioning the basic "it doesn't work" to my teams of engineers would lead consequently to a redundant headshot.

 

I will test once again though when i have time tomorrow. Just to be sure.

 

Edit your existing VM and turn on advanced view in the top right of the edit page. Scroll down to the network section. You'll see the bridge for your existing VMs is still set to virbr0.  Change that to br0.  Click update. Have a beer. ;-)