On 08/14/11 16:49, Zdenek Styblik wrote: > On 08/14/11 16:17, Zdenek Styblik wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've noticed libvirt is persisting to have dnsmasq present and use it. >> Version of libvirt in question is 0.9.4. >> >> There is no dnsmasq present on the Host during libvirt compilation, yet >> it seems to me ./configure wrongfully finds one: >> >> ~~~ SNIP ~~~ >> configure:46087: checking for dnsmasq >> configure:46119: result: dnsmasq >> ~~~ SNIP ~~~ >> >> shouldn't there be "result: no"? As far as I remember - no dnsmasq >> present during compilation, no usage of it later. However I might have >> missed something - change in behavior, requirements etc. This is >> possible. Still, if required "component" is missing, I say compilation >> resp. configure should fail. >> >> And this of course breaks things later on: >> >> ~~~ SNIP ~~~ >> virsh # net-start virtnet01 >> error: Failed to start network virtnet01 >> error: Cannot find 'dnsmasq' in path: No such file or directory >> ~~~ SNIP ~~~ >> >> and there is no DHCP defined for 'virtnet01' thus there is no reason to >> bring dnsmasq in. Neither can be new network created and started via >> virt-manager. >> >> Thanks, >> Zdenek >> > > Yet strange enough, 'default' virtual network gets started without any > problems. > > I've tried unsuccessfully hack around this "problem". The far I got was: > "error: Cannot find '' in path: No such file or directory". > > Z. > Also, dnsmasq not required for NAT-ed networks. And libvirt-0.9.3 doesn't have this dependency resp. works as I've written above - no dnsmasq during compilation, no dnsmasq dependency later. May be some of the patches in Changelog introduced this kind of dependency? I've seen patches regarding return-codes from dnsmasq. Z. -- Zdenek Styblik email: stybla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: stybla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list