[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#612013: Bug#612013: (network) device enumeration does not work without hal

[Guido Günther]

tags 612013 +pending
Thanks,

On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 06:34:18PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 0.8.3-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I installed libvirt-bin on a squeeze system and I've configured two
> bridge interfaces via /etc/network/interfaces
> 
> When hal is *not* installed, I can't choose the bridge interfaces when
> adding a network device, only NAT is available as option, as you can see
> from the attached screenshot.
> The error message indicates, that hal is still required for device
> enumeration.
> 
> As soon as I install the hal package, my bridge interfaces are visible
> within virt-manager.

Yes, it's still used for bridge enumeration within virt-manager. I added
a suggests.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> I'm not entirely sure if this is a issue in virt-manager issue or libvirt-bin.
> Please reassign accordingly.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash


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