On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 02:57:54PM +0200, Geert Jansen wrote: > I think it would be nice if it were possible to create a virtual network > with virt-manager without DHCP and DNS services. This is useful when you > want to use a host-only network for testing a setup that includes a DHCP > server. > > I am not sure whether this is a limitation in virt-manager or in libvirt. It's a libvirt thing. Replies redirected to libvir-list. My understanding is that if the network doesn't contain a <ip...> element in the network XML then no DHCP server will be created. http://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html