NetworkManager does not work in ProxyVM/AppVM based on Debian 7 template

[marmarek]

On Debian 7, when NetworkManager is enabled in ProxyVM/AppVM (qvm-service VMNAME -e network-manager), startup scripts prepare static configuration for eth0 based on Qubes settings (via
xenstore/qubesdb). It is created by setup-ip script and the output file is /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/qubes-uplink-eth0. Apparently NetworkManager in Debian 7 does not understand this file:

Apr 12 00:14:54 localhost NetworkManager[1495]:    keyfile: parsing qubes-uplink-eth0 ...
Apr 12 00:14:54 localhost NetworkManager[1495]: Unknown setting 'ethernet'
Apr 12 00:14:54 localhost NetworkManager[1495]: Invalid setting name 'ethernet'
Apr 12 00:14:54 localhost NetworkManager[1495]: read_ip4_addresses: ignoring invalid IPv4 address item ''
Apr 12 00:14:54 localhost NetworkManager[1495]:    keyfile:     error: invalid or missing connection property 'addresses'

And tries to configure eth0 using DHCP...

The same file works on Debian 8. It looks like this:

[802-3-ethernet]
duplex=full

[ethernet]
mac-address=00:16:3e:5e:6c:30

[connection]
id=VM uplink eth0
uuid=de85f79b-8c3d-405f-a652-cb4c10b4f9ef
type=802-3-ethernet

[ipv6]
method=ignore

[ipv4]
method=manual
may-fail=false
dns=10.137.1.1;10.137.1.254
address1=10.137.1.50/32,10.137.1.1

[marmarek]

@nrgaway, can you look at this? Or should we ignore the issue since jessie is now stable?

[marmarek]

@nrgaway, can you look at this? Or should we ignore the issue since jessie is now stable?

[nrgaway]

I was thinking as labelling it won't fix since Jessie is now stable. Within a few weeks Whonix will also be moved over to Jessie and I will add support for stretch

[nrgaway]

I was thinking as labelling it won't fix since Jessie is now stable. Within a few weeks Whonix will also be moved over to Jessie and I will add support for stretch