[libvirt-users] How to disable dnsmasq from starting automatically with libvirtd

[Marwan Tanager]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 03:17:14PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
> On 2012年09月13日 14:55, Marwan Tanager wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 01:04:58PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
> >>On 2012年09月13日 11:23, Marwan Tanager wrote:
> >>
> >>No, to disable the autostarting of dnsmasq, you need to disable the
> >>autostart of network which drives dnsmasq (named 'default' by default).
> >>
> >>% virsh net-autostart --disable default
> >>
> >>Then it won't be started automatically along with libvirtd service next
> >>time.
> >
> >Thanks for the response, but my question was whether it's possible to start
> >libvirtd (and hence, activate the virtual networks "automatically") on boot, but
> >without dnsmasq being started along the way. Your answer means that to disable
> >dnsmasq from starting automatically, I need to disable the network form starting
> >automatically too.
> >
> >Anyway, I destroyed the 'default' network, then killed the dnsmasq process for
> >that network, but when I started it again, dnsmasq started along with it. So, it
> >appears that the whole thing is hard coded.
> 
> No, it depends on your previous network status, note that libvirt
> saves the object's state, so that things could be consistent before
> restarting/reloading.
> 
> # virsh net-list --all
> Name                 State      Autostart
> -----------------------------------------
> default              active     no
> 
> # service libvirtd restart
> Restarting libvirtd (via systemctl):                       [  OK  ]
> 
> # virsh net-list --all
> Name                 State      Autostart
> -----------------------------------------
> default              active     no
> 
> # pidof libvirtd
> 6868
> # pidof dnsmasq
> 6826
> 
> 
> # virsh net-destroy default
> Network default destroyed
> 
> # service libvirtd restart
> Restarting libvirtd (via systemctl):                       [  OK  ]
> 
> # virsh net-list --all
> Name                 State      Autostart
> -----------------------------------------
> default              inactive   no
> 
> # ps -ef | grep dnsmasq
> root      6762 20112  0 15:07 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto dnsmasq
> # pidof libvirtd
> 6689
> 
> Does this make sense to you? :-)
> 
> Regards,
> Osier

It does, but it's a different story. You should have tried two more commands 
after the last one:

# virsh net-start default
# ps -ef | grep dnsmasq

then, you would have found the grepping positive. That's what I'am actually 
talking about :)

		
	Marwan