Hello, Am hoping to get experienced eyes on this to evaluate how much of what I'm seeing is expected and what is not. System: openSUSE 12.2 Desktop: KDE 4.8 Virtualization: QEMU-KVM Also using graphical virt-manager Hardware: Laptop with occasionally available WiFi - I have found that anything configured for bridged networking still requires a wired connection, usually binding to eth0. - I have found that when any real connection to a Network exists (wireless or wired), if a Host Only network does not exist, then the Guest will be automatically configured to use User Mode Networking <only when the NIC is created>. - When a physical connection does not exist for a Guest previously created using a NIC configured for User Mode Networking, User Mode Networking will fail with an error "service unavailable, port 5900" which likely means that a VNC connection cannot be made. - Curiously, even with no physical network connection, if a Host Only network is created and a second virtual network for the new Host Only network is added to the Guest described previously, the Guest VM will boot up (no service unavailable, port 5900 error) and can even be viewed using virt-viewer. But, on closer inspection running ifconfig in the Guest reveals only one working NIC configured with an IP address for the User Mode Network while running ifconfig on the Host reveals that only the Host Only network is running and available. So, of course, Host and Guest cannot communicate using TCP/IP with each other except using virt-viewer (should not work?). - Have not tried, but am considering the idea of configuring the Host Only network to share the same networkID as the User Mode Network (10.0.2.0/24) but make sure the DHCP ranges are different. Theoretically I think this workaround might work but shouldn't be required. TIA, Tony -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+owner@opensuse.org