On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 12:55:04 +0100
al3xu5 via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

>
> Please, I would ask for your advices about the situation described
> below.
>
> Excuse me if this could be OT in this list.
>
> 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.
>
> I have seen the dnsmasq-base package should contain a dnsmasq
> executable which cannot be started as a system daemon.
>
> Maybe the dnsmasq-base package a solution?


I can confirm that having dnsmasq-base installed is sufficient to start
the network.

libre Grüße,
Florian