dnsmasq interfering with bootpd

[Markus Schönhaber]

13.03.2010 04:43, scar:

> Markus Schönhaber @ 03/12/2010 01:46 AM:

>> WAG: you have libvirt-bin installed which depends on dnsmasq-base.
> 
> it seems so... i do have a virtual machine configured, and it now has no
> network connectivity.
> 
> how can we get everyone to get along?  we are in some low-level stuff
> here and i don't quite know how these programs interact with each other....

AFAIK libvirt-bin starts dnsmasq with --bind-interfaces, which means it
will listen to all available interfaces. This makes it impossible to
successfully run another DHCP server at the same time on the machine.
I don't know of a way of preventing libvirt from doing this, short of
not starting libvirt's default networking at all. But this would mean
that you'd have to configure all the networking stuff yourself.
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking

OTOH, if you can live with stopping libvirt's dnsmasq manually, it is
probably enough to assign the VM a fixed address and let it use your
upstream DNS.

-- 
Regards
  mks