[libvirt] libvirt 0.9.0 crashes on first start since boot

[Thomas Treutner]

On 04/17/2011 11:31 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 04/15/2011 09:03 AM, Thomas Treutner wrote:
>>
>> I removed dnsmasq startup from the runlevel, now it works fine. I have
>> seen dnsmasq errors for a long time, but I didn't really care too much
>> about, as I don't need dnsmasq and the warnings didn't stop libvrit
>> from working. I think I'll just deinstall dnsmasq.
>
> Are you sure you want to uninstall dnsmasq, and not just disable it in
> the system config? If you uninstall dnsmasq, libvirt will fail to start
> the virtual networks - it uses dnsmasq to provide DNS for those networks
> even if you don't specify a dhcp range or hosts.

Thanks for info, but I've not experienced such problems in my setup. I 
have a bridged network for the guests, static IPs and my DNS server in 
the guests /etc/resolv.conf - and everything works fine that way. I 
assume I don't need dnsmasq in such a setup?