Thanks. So it's not a race with networking setup - dnsmasq simply refuses to run. Odd!
I'll try a bit more to reproduce with a vm with two nics and with an interfaces file like yours. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/918807 Title: [precise] virbr0 not created during fresh install To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/918807/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs