Bug 1259015
| Summary: | persistent interface names for virtio interfaces | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Harald Hoyer <harald> |
| Component: | systemd | Assignee: | systemd-maint |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-daemons |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | Jana Heves <jsvarova> |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | brwillia, fdeutsch, jscotka, jsvarova, lnykryn, msekleta, mvadkert, ovasik, peter.sjoberg, rupatel, systemd-maint-list, systemd-maint |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | systemd-219-13.el7 | Doc Type: | Release Note |
| Doc Text: |
Enable virtio network device renaming
This update adds a new persistent naming scheme for the virtio driver, which enables virtio network device renaming. To enable this feature in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, add the "net.ifnames=1" kernel parameter while booting.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2015-11-19 15:08:20 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 1252514 | ||
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Comment 1
Harald Hoyer
2015-09-02 12:35:39 UTC
With the patch in place, qemu instances with virtio network interfaces will gain the ID_NET_NAME_PATH attributes, and will be renamed according to their PCI slot. Let's make this new behavior opt-in: https://github.com/lnykryn/systemd-rhel/commit/727e60797beff565a2f1d16bd63aa6bb7b5a787f Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2092.html |