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Unable to start VM with networking #5

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SimonTate opened this issue Jan 18, 2021 · 2 comments
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Unable to start VM with networking #5

SimonTate opened this issue Jan 18, 2021 · 2 comments
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Hi,

Firstly, thanks for this project. Extremely useful. 😄

I have noticed an issue, and found the root cause, but I'd like to discuss the direction of any PR.

The issue:

When running vmcli on main with the networking portion left in, the VM never starts and silently fails. If I remove the networking code, then vmcli starts the VM with no issues (except no networking, obviously).

Debugging this, found the following log in console: default 08:55:10.482714+0000 InternetSharing VMNet in NAT mode can't be started now due to an active InternetSharing session on en0.

The fix:

Disable InternetSharing. Simple as that. Then everything works as expected (with a NAT device, haven't tested bridge mode).

How should we "fix" this? A note in documentation? Or a check in the code for this scenario (if possible?)?

@gyf304 gyf304 self-assigned this Jan 18, 2021
@gyf304 gyf304 added bug Something isn't working documentation Improvements or additions to documentation labels Jan 18, 2021
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gyf304 commented Jan 19, 2021

I added a print to stderr if the VM fails to start, hope that will make things easier to debug. Also added a note for InternetSharing in README.md.
Thank you for your feedback!

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Looks great. Thanks!

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