[libvirt] route seems to be not affecting the network behavior

Hello, I’m trying to set a default gateway on an isolated lan (because one of my VM get access to an other lan). I’m trying to use the option <route > but this doesn’t affect the default route on my VMs. Here is the network xml <network> <name>prd-private-lan</name> <uuid>2222222222222222222222</uuid> <bridge name='virbr3' stp='off' delay='0'/> <mac address='52:54:00:08:1e:d8'/> <domain name=‘pre' /> <dns> <forwarder addr='8.8.4.4'/> <forwarder addr='8.8.8.8'/> </dns> <ip address='10.10.0.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'> <dhcp> <range start='10.10.0.128' end='10.10.0.254’/> <host mac=‘xxxxxx' name=‘finternet.pret' ip='10.10.0.7'/> </dhcp> </ip> <route address='10.10.0.0' netmask='255.255.255.0' gateway='10.10.0.7'/> </network> And here is what I get on the guest VM connected to the pre-private-lan route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.10.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 100 0 0 ens4 Can someone help me or tell me what to do ? What I’m a bit surprise is the file //var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/prd-private-lan.conf doesn’t contain any clause defining the new gateway. Something like ‘dhcp-option=3,10.10.0.7' strict-order no-resolv server=8.8.4.4 server=8.8.8.8 domain=prd.pipiche.net expand-hosts pid-file=/var/run/libvirt/network/prd-private-lan.pid except-interface=lo bind-dynamic interface=virbr3 dhcp-option=3 no-resolv dhcp-range=10.10.0.128,10.10.0.254 dhcp-no-override dhcp-lease-max=127 dhcp-hostsfile=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/prd-private-lan.hostsfile addn-hosts=/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/prd-private-lan.addnhosts Of course I can add an explicit route on the guest - so did I - but for maintenance purposes I would like to avoid and have all configuration in the network XML Thanks in advance Patrick