Thanks for your prompt reply. I now realize I should've set the severity to normal, I guess I was a bit quick in choosing important. We often notice that we've forgot to add backup interfaces to some virtual machines and having to reboot the machines to add just this while they're allready live is a bit of a pain.
Anyway, thanks for considering this and I understand your thoughts about backports perfectly. If you need any help in testing the impact of this change, I'll be glad to help you out. Kind regards ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Tokarev" <m...@tls.msk.ru> > To: "Thomas Wouters" <tho...@tcpdump.be>, 637...@bugs.debian.org > Sent: Tuesday, 16 August, 2011 3:02:20 PM > Subject: Re: Bug#637990: qemu-kvm: Please include patch to stash away > SCM_RIGHTS fd to allow libvirt to hotplug NIC's > > 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 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
