On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:49:39AM -0700, Kurt Sussman wrote: > I want my VMs to be assigned static addresses by hostname. I would > prefer to set up a generic way to configure dnsmasq, since I don't think > this is the last thing I'll want to change about address assignment. > > I saw this patch from "Mads Chr. Olesen" > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-April/msg00327.html > > But it seems like a lot of work to give access to only one dnsmasq > option. The point of the impl quoted above is - The use of Dnsmasq is a private implementation detail that must remain hidden from applications using libvirt, so an alternate DNS/DHCP impl can we switched in without breaking apps using it - It provides applications a programmatic API for controlling the address assignment, because you cannot assume login access to the OS running dnsmasq. - It ensures the configuration of the network is fully specified in a single place, so can be guarenteed identical across all machines using the same XML configuraiton. For all these reasons, we explicitly do not use a configuration file with dnsmasq - indeed we explicitly disable it, and do not intend to support its use. Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -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