On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 08:52:12AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 02:57:54PM +0200, Geert Jansen wrote: > > I think it would be nice if it were possible to create a virtual network > > with virt-manager without DHCP and DNS services. This is useful when you > > want to use a host-only network for testing a setup that includes a DHCP > > server. > > > > I am not sure whether this is a limitation in virt-manager or in libvirt. > > It's a libvirt thing. Replies redirected to libvir-list. > > My understanding is that if the network doesn't contain a <ip...> > element in the network XML then no DHCP server will be created. > > http://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html As Rich mentions, this is already supported in libvirt - simply omit the <dhcp> tag. This is not exposed in the virt-manager UI though - it always requires DHCP, so you'll need to use the command line to configure this. Dan -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list