I have a home server running gentoo, within it there is a libvirt-kvm vm which is a router marked as autostart additionally I defined a tap between the host and vm. after hotplug and net config, I boot the system and the vm to host tap doesn't get ip on boot. if I run dhcpcd <iface> it gets ip. I assume that because the vm isn't up yet, the hotplug bails out. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a vm with router os in it (I use openwrt), define a host to vm virtual iface, mark the vm as autostart and make sure libvirt is starting at boot 2. make sure dhcpcd is installed. 3. add <iface>_br0="dhcp" to /etc/conf.d/net 4. run ln -s /etc/init.d/net.{lo,<iface>} 5. update rc_hotplug in /etc/rc.conf to include net.<iface> 6. add net.<iface> to hotplugged runlevel 7. reboot Actual Results: the vm boots, rc-status --all shows net.<iface> as started but no ip allocated. running dhcpcd net.<iface> allocated ip to the vnic Expected Results: the vm boots, net.<iface> is allocated a ip.
It is sad to read that you have problems with the software. The situation seems to be a bit more complicate and requires some analysis. We can not help you efficiently via bug tracker. The bug tracker aims rather on specific problems in .ebuilds and less on individual systems. I have had very good experience on the gentoo IRC [1] with questions like this. Of course there are also forums and mailing lists [2,3]. I hope you understand, that I will close the bug here therefore and wish you good luck on one of the mentioned channels [4]. Please reopen the ticket in order to provide an indication for an specific error in an ebuild or any gentoo related product. [1] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/irc-channels/ [2] https://forums.gentoo.org/ [3] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/mailing-lists/all-lists.html [4] https://www.gentoo.org/support/
unfortunately, posting this bug is because other options have failed/rejected. the forums is the first place I've tried, see https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1118792-highlight-.html as no one answered, I went the mailing list way, see https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/message/e966299fd85a358dfa1109a65d8c8bed there no one answered too... irc wise, the mail chatroom is #gentoo and from past experience, such complicated issues aren't get advanced too much there. channels with less traffic like #openrc are problematic to me as my online time doesn't match with the us online time resulting with "ping pong" chat (if anyone answers even) which will take ages to complete...
