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Commit 1238706f authored by Guido Günther's avatar Guido Günther
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Recommend dnsmasq-base instead of dnsmasq

this keeps us out of all the dnsmasq already running troubles.

Closes: #516443
Thanks: Bin Zhang for the suggestion and the doc update
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......@@ -37,8 +37,10 @@ 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. However Debian's default dnsmasq
needs to be adjusted slightly to interoperate with libvirtd:
dnsmasq-base, bridge-utils and iptables installed.
You don't need the package dnsmasq. However, if you install it, Debian's
default dnsmasq needs to be adjusted slightly to interoperate with libvirtd:
cat <<EOF >/etc/dnsmasq.d/00_libvirtd.conf
# only bind to loopback by default
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......@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, adduser, libvirt0 (>= ${binary:Version}), logrotate
Enhances: qemu, kvm, xen
Section: admin
Recommends: netcat-openbsd, bridge-utils, dnsmasq (>= 2.46-1), iptables, qemu (>= 0.9.1)
Recommends: netcat-openbsd, bridge-utils, dnsmasq-base (>= 2.46-1), iptables, qemu (>= 0.9.1)
Suggests: policykit
Description: the programs for the libvirt library
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
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