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

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Sat Feb 5 17:57:33 UTC 2011


On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 06:29:17PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi Guido!
> 
> On 05.02.2011 16:47, Guido Günther wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 06:34:18PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> Given that hal is going away, would it be possible to port it to use udev (or
> any other mechanism) instead?
> The only reason why I have to install hal on this KVM server is for libvirt,
> which is a bit of a heavy weight dep imho.
Libvirt doesn't use it at all. It's only used by virt-manager but the
code should indeed be replaced.
Cheers,
 -- Guido





More information about the Pkg-libvirt-maintainers mailing list