[libvirt-users] Changing dnsmasq DNS settings for virtual machines

[Johannes Kastl]

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Hi Laine,

thanks for the answer.

On 13.04.14 16:13 Laine Stump wrote:

> There is no provision for that. If you want additional hosts to be
> known by the libvcirt instance of dnsmasq, you must enter them into
> the xml.

I can set the addn-hosts in the .conf file in
/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/<nameofthenetwork>.conf.

I was just not sure if this gets overwritten, each time I change a
setting in the network's xml (virsh net-edit ...).

> If we allowed pointing to an existing addn-hosts file written by
> the user, we would be adding the format of dnsmasq's addn-hosts
> file to libvirt's official API, which we don't want to do - we want
> to keep libvirt's API as implementation-agnostic as possible (in
> case someone implements a libvirt network driver that uses
> something other than dnsmasq for DNS, for example).

Sounds reasonable.

Regards,
Johannes
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