severity 637990 normal
tags 637990 + confirmed upstream fixed-upstream squeeze
fixed 637990 0.13.0
thanks
16.08.2011 15:49, Thomas Wouters wrote:
> Package: qemu-kvm
> Version: 0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze6
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream patch
Why do you think this is an important level of severity? From the
reportbug "menu":
4 important a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a
package, without rendering it completely unusable to
everyone.
6 normal a bug that does not undermine the usability of the whole
package; for example, a problem with a particular option
or menu item.
To me, the severity is clearly "normal", -- this package is in use by
many people, and you're the first person to try to hotplug a network
card, -- definitely not a very frequent operation to do (I for one
never tried it so far).
That being said, I usually treat bugreports better if they're filed
properly. But your has another good side: you found the solution
already, so it's ready to go, so I'll take this as a compensation :)
(And no, I'm not a bad bore usually ;)
> Hi, it's currently not possible to hotplug NIC's using libvirt and as far as
> I can tell, it's qemu's fault.
> When I try to hotplug a NIC I get the following error:
> internal error unable to send TAP file handle: No file descriptor supplied
> via SCM_RIGHTS
>
> I've been looking around for a while and found that Ubuntu includes a patch
> to fix this:
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/0.12.4+noroms-0ubuntu3
>
> Could this be included in squeeze and lenny-backports? Or do you guys know of
> another way to hotplug network devices with libvirt? :-)
I'll take a look at this - at first glance this patch may have
additional unexpected effects.
As for including it in squeeze - this is a different question.
If it turns out to be easy (no side-effects), I'll do that -
maybe for next squeeze point-release. And only after that
it will be possible to upload it to squeeze-backports. But
note that this is a very rarely used feature, so it may be
better to keep it as it is, without breaking working setups.
I'll take a look, but no promises.
Thank you for the bugreport.
/mjt
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