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

[Ian Campbell]

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 20:45 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> 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.

I tested this on Wheezy and it is required. Also I made the xl change
upstream and I know what I'm talking about ;-)

> > @@ -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?

I appear to have started with an unexpectedly dirty working tree, please
ignore...

(I've reverted the spurious change in my working tree)

Ian.