should be related to another bug I filed to netplan https://bugs.launchpad.net/netplan/+bug/1999181 here's journalctl output, with "default logging" enabled in libvirtd.conf I keep the sequence of log entries as output from journalctl, but deleted not that relevant entries; let me know if I should expect / keep something ========================================================= Aug 16 18:21:28 ****** audit[399]: AVC apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="libvirtd//qemu_bridge_helper" pid=399 comm="apparmor_parser" Aug 16 18:21:29 ****** systemd-networkd[319]: eth1: Interface name change detected, renamed to i350_p1. Aug 16 18:21:29 ****** kernel: igb 0000:09:00.0 i350_p0: renamed from eth0 Aug 16 18:21:29 ****** kernel: ixgbe 0000:01:00.0: Intel(R) 10 Gigabit Network Connection Aug 16 18:21:29 ****** systemd[1]: Started Virtualization daemon. Aug 16 18:21:29 ****** systemd-networkd[319]: eth0: Interface name change detected, renamed to i350_p0. Aug 16 18:21:29 ****** systemd[1]: Starting Suspend/Resume Running libvirt Guests... Aug 16 18:21:29 ****** kernel: ixgbe 0000:01:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) Aug 16 18:21:29 ****** systemd[1]: Started Dispatcher daemon for systemd-networkd. Aug 16 18:21:29 ****** systemd[1]: Finished Suspend/Resume Running libvirt Guests. Aug 16 18:21:29 ****** systemd[1]: Reached target Multi-User System. Aug 16 18:21:29 ****** systemd[1]: Startup finished in 26.344s (firmware) + 6.367s (loader) + 2.337s (kernel) + 1.888s (userspace) = 36.938s. Aug 16 18:21:29 ****** libvirtd[437]: 468: info : libvirt version: 8.0.0, package: 1ubuntu7.6 (Rafael Lopez