[libvirt] Bug - libvirt persists on having dnsmasq

[Zdenek Styblik]

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.

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