<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> I looked into this a little more myself (mixture of the "Virtual Machine Manager" gui and virsh cli is my toolset) which provided me with some insights. <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06.09.20 14:50, gunnar.wagner wrote: </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:9ac41fca-45e2-49e2-f58d-610066321723@netcologne.de">As per my basic understanding a network in KVM apparently also provides the work of an DHCP server for all machines on that network. </blockquote> only if DHCP is enabled upon creation of such a network <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:9ac41fca-45e2-49e2-f58d-610066321723@netcologne.de">[...] how would you go about whether you wanted (for learning purposes) to use a particular VM on such a KVM (internal) network to act as the DHCP server for all machines on that network? </blockquote> by creating a network without DHCP enabled </body> </html>