[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#413601: Xen domUs vs. udev

[Andy Smith]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:34:50AM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> The virtual ethernet devices that the Xen dom0 creates for providing net
> access to a domU will have (unless overridden) a rather random mac
> address.  Now, when having udev installed in a domU (by the way: the
> problem seems to not show up with version 0.103-2) this has the effect
> that (guesswork follows) udev thinks on each system (re)start that a new
> ethernet device is available.

[...]

> A workaround is to either use udev version 0.103-2 in the Xen domUs or
> completely remove the udev package from there.

Or give them static MAC addresses in their xen config files?  I am
doing this anyway for other reasons.

Cheers,
Andy
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