#1977 HIGH Untriag: Neighborhood doesn't work in qemu

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#1977: Neighborhood doesn't work in qemu
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 Reporter:  MitchellNCharity  |       Owner:  jg       
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  Untriaged
Component:  distro            |     Version:           
 Keywords:                    |    Verified:  0        
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 Network Manager, and thus Presence Service, doesn't work in qemu.

 NM requires a nic with link detection.  Qemu's rtl8139 nic provides this,
 but the default ne2k does not.

 The xo images don't have the 8139 driver.

 berrange reports NM works in qemu when the driver is present.

 The current recommended workaround is to disable NM, and use sugar
 fallbacks.  In recent builds, this workaround has ceased working (beyond
 the first boot).  Rather than trying to debug the workaround, can we fix
 the underlying problem?

 Adding a 8139 driver to the build has been an informal todo item for some
 time.  blizzard says the images are supposed to "just work".  So not
 seeing a ticket, I add this one.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/1977>
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