Package libvirt-bin should not contain a default network

[Dr. Jens Harbott]

When using OpenStack, we do not want the default network from installing libvirt-bin to exist. We can remove the network after installing the package, but that will remove the file /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml that is included in the package and it might also reappear once the package gets updated.

Seems like this was handled earlier in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/372001 already.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Removing that by default is not an option. We could use debconf to make it optional (default-on).

[Simon Déziel (sdeziel)]

On 2016-04-07 10:03 AM, Dr. Jens Rosenboom wrote:
> When using OpenStack, we do not want the default network from installing
> libvirt-bin to exist. We can remove the network after installing the
> package, but that will remove the file
> /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml that is included in the package
> and it might also reappear once the package gets updated.

Have you tried turning off autostart for that network?

  virsh net-autostart --disable default

This simply removes the symlink and have been working well for me at least.

> Seems like this was handled earlier in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/372001 already.

That bug was about disabled autostart not being respected through
updates. This is no longer an issue.