[Pkg-libvirt-commits] [SCM] Libvirt debian packaging branch, master, updated. debian/0.4.6-4-3-g411ada3

[Guido Guenther]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 411ada3e726d0a6915b18d9a527ea918285cc50a
Author: Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org>
Date:   Thu Nov 13 09:23:31 2008 +0100

    add more details about dnsmasq vs. libvirtd
    
    Closes: #504605

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 42f824d..13eea41 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -25,9 +25,21 @@ via dnsmasq. This network is not automatically started. To start it use:
 
  virsh net-start default
 
+To make the default network start automatically use:
+
+ virsh net-autostart default
+
 In order for things to work this way you need to have the recommended packages
-dnsmasq, bridge-utils and iptables installed and dnsmasq must not be already
-running since libvirt starts it with the above parameters.
+dnsmasq, bridge-utils and iptables installed. However Debian's default dnsmasq
+configuration conflicts with the way libvirtd wants to invoke it. You have two
+possibilities:
+
+    * don't start dnsmasq via /etc/init.d/dnsmasq during system startup and let
+      libvirtd handle dnsmasq completely
+
+    * use "interface=lo" and "bind-interfaces" in dnsmasq.conf 
+
+See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504605 for more information.
 
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