internal error: Failed to initialize a valid firewall backend
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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libvirt (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Marc Deslauriers |
Bug Description
on a current wily environment:
trying to create a virtual machine using the instructions from https:/
$ virt-install -n trusty_buildd -r 4096 --disk path=/mnt/
Installation wird gestartet...
ERROR Angeforderte Operation ist nicht gültig: network 'default' is not active
$ virsh net-list --all
Name State Autostart Persistent
-------
default inactive yes yes
$ virsh net-start default
error: Failed to start network default
error: internal error: Failed to initialize a valid firewall backend
seen when not having libvirt-bin's recommends installed:
ebtables gawk libxml2-utils
so at least one of these missing causes the failure