Re: [libvirt] Bug - libvirt persists on having dnsmasq

On 08/14/11 16:17, Zdenek Styblik wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed libvirt is persisting to have dnsmasq present and use it. > Version of libvirt in question is 0.9.4. > > There is no dnsmasq present on the Host during libvirt compilation, yet > it seems to me ./configure wrongfully finds one: > > ~~~ SNIP ~~~ > configure:46087: checking for dnsmasq > configure:46119: result: dnsmasq > ~~~ SNIP ~~~ > > shouldn't there be "result: no"? As far as I remember - no dnsmasq > present during compilation, no usage of it later. However I might have > missed something - change in behavior, requirements etc. This is > possible. Still, if required "component" is missing, I say compilation > resp. configure should fail. > > And this of course breaks things later on: > > ~~~ SNIP ~~~ > virsh # net-start virtnet01 > error: Failed to start network virtnet01 > error: Cannot find 'dnsmasq' in path: No such file or directory > ~~~ SNIP ~~~ > > and there is no DHCP defined for 'virtnet01' thus there is no reason to > bring dnsmasq in. Neither can be new network created and started via > virt-manager. > > Thanks, > Zdenek > Yet strange enough, 'default' virtual network gets started without any problems. I've tried unsuccessfully hack around this "problem". The far I got was: "error: Cannot find '' in path: No such file or directory". Z.