I have experienced the same problem, but it occurs much later than bootup. (Perhaps it should be logged as a different bug.)
My host is Ubuntu 9.04 amd64. My guest is 32-bit Windows XP. Same meta packages as Robert Rittenhouse. I have tried closing and opening the machine from the Virtual Machine Manager, and pausing and unpausing it. Neither had any effect. But I could tell by pinging it, and by opening a folder shared by it over Samba, that other network connectivity was fine. This workaround from Doug Bunger worked for me. [http://dougbunger.blogspot.com/2008/11/kvm-tcpip-error-vnc.html] In my case, I did this ("windowsxp" is the domain name, listed in the Virtual Machine Manager): $ sudo apt-get install xvnc4viewer $ virsh vncdisplay windowsxp Connecting to uri: qemu:///system :0 $ vncviewer 127.0.0.1:0 I hope that helps. -- Unable to run Virtual Machine https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217311 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs