[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#671018: Bug#671018: #671018 -- set tap device mac address in qemu-ifup

[Bastian Blank]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 12:20:28PM -0600, Ian Campbell wrote:
> This issue has been fixed upstream for 4.2 by using the same hotplug
> scripts for tap devices as for vif devices rather than using a special
> qemu-ifup script. I don't think this is an appropriate thing to backport
> to 4.1 for wheezy so therefore I think the right fix is as Pierre
> suggests to set the MAC address in the qemu-ifup script.

4.1 uses udev on Linux for the qemu tap devices. xl explicitely sets
script=no, not sure about xend yet. So it is not necessary.

> @@ -95,6 +102,7 @@ xen (4.1.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
>    * Restart xen daemons on upgrade.
>    * Restart and stop xenconsoled in init script.
>    * Load xen-gntdev module.
> +  * Load xen-gntdev module.

Where does this come from?

Bastian

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