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Commit 411ada3e authored by Guido Günther's avatar Guido Günther Committed by Guido Günther
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add more details about dnsmasq vs. libvirtd

Closes: #504605
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......@@ -25,9 +25,21 @@ via dnsmasq. This network is not automatically started. To start it use:
virsh net-start default
To make the default network start automatically use:
virsh net-autostart default
In order for things to work this way you need to have the recommended packages
dnsmasq, bridge-utils and iptables installed and dnsmasq must not be already
running since libvirt starts it with the above parameters.
dnsmasq, bridge-utils and iptables installed. However Debian's default dnsmasq
configuration conflicts with the way libvirtd wants to invoke it. You have two
possibilities:
* don't start dnsmasq via /etc/init.d/dnsmasq during system startup and let
libvirtd handle dnsmasq completely
* use "interface=lo" and "bind-interfaces" in dnsmasq.conf
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504605 for more information.
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