Looking at this bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=625689
There is this comment: m...@tls.msk.ru wrote: > No the limitation isn't documented (yet), and it will be difficult > to fix too, or maybe not worth a trouble really. Two reasons. > First of all, user-mode networking is not suitable for anything > serious, you really want tap networking with bridges, which is > about 100 times faster and actually works (e.g. ICMP). Second, > the implementation is rather simplistic - for DNS it merely > forwards (like a NAT box) packets from guest to a nameserver > from host /resolv.conf - only one nameserver, because you can't > NAT to TWO destinations at once. So in order to fix that, > qemu has to become application-level proxy for DNS, instead > of a simple NAT "device". Unfortunately I'm on MacOs, and I don't want to be using resolv.conf. I want it to use a locally running dnsmasq instead. Can anyone point me to which bit of source I need to change to hard-code this to 127.0.0.1, or is that out of the question?