[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#503904: Bug#503904: libvirt-bin uses dhcp-server

Wed Oct 29 11:13:12 UTC 2008

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:54:04AM +0100, Julien HEYMAN wrote:
[..snip..] 
> maybe put this information in the README.Debian if it's a normal
> behavior.
This is in README.Debian:

The default NAT network
=======================
To ease network configuration libvirt defines a NATed network named "default".
VMs using this network end up in 192.168.122.1/24 and DHCP is provided to them
via dnsmasq. This network is not automatically started. To start it use:

 virsh net-start default

In order for things to work this way you need to have the recommended packages
dnsmasq, bridge-utils and iptables installed and dnsmasq must not be already
running since libvirt starts it with the above parameters.

Patches to make this more obvious are certainly welcome.
 -- Guido