Pihole running on a VM - lots of requests from VM host to pihole

1- was already done
2- was already disabled
3- this just disables logging, does not fix the issue
4- the host and the VM don't have the same MAC addresses
5- nothing obvious on the host that can be generating those requests, haven't run wireshard though
6- this does not fix the issue

Also, this does not seem to be happening all the time, it happens for an hour or 2, then stops for a while... then comes back, and so on.