Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:18:49 +0100 - Antony Stone
<Antony.Stone@???>:

> On Friday 21 January 2022 at 12:55:04, al3xu5 via Dng wrote:
>
> > On my chimaera system, I am using unbound as a local recursive caching
> > DNS (not authoritative) server. More, I have uninstalled dnsmasq, as I
> > do not need it and want to avoid it interfering with unbound.
> >
> > But QEMU/KVM requires dnsmasq to start the 'default' virt network.
>
> Does it really "require" dnsmasq?
>
> I don't have a Chimaera system here running Qemu/KVM, but do I have a
> Beowulf one, and that doesn't run dnsmasq.
>
> What does "aptitude why dnsmasq" tell you on that machine?


dnsmasq is required in order to start the default network:

$ sudo virsh net-start default
error: Failed to start network default
error: Cannot check dnsmasq binary /usr/sbin/dnsmasq: No such file or
directory


Regards
al3xu5

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