No offence, but systemctl status isn't exactly new to me. The issue is that network.target apparently never fires any service which requires it (in Jessie at least). For what it's worth systemctl status docker shows it's just inactive (dead) - journalctl similarly shows no clues at all. I have a Debian pressed.cfg & virt-install script to reproduce if you're interested, https://gist.github.com/csirac2/f6e4ac6e7c715243d4b8 and https://gist.github.com/csirac2/57a1ddf7931fa3e9d17a although these aren't up to date with what I've been preparing for a bug report