Note: This bug is displayed in read-only format because the product is no longer active in Red Hat Bugzilla.
RHEL Engineering is moving the tracking of its product development work on RHEL 6 through RHEL 9 to Red Hat Jira (issues.redhat.com). If you're a Red Hat customer, please continue to file support cases via the Red Hat customer portal. If you're not, please head to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira and file new tickets here. Individual Bugzilla bugs in the statuses "NEW", "ASSIGNED", and "POST" are being migrated throughout September 2023. Bugs of Red Hat partners with an assigned Engineering Partner Manager (EPM) are migrated in late September as per pre-agreed dates. Bugs against components "kernel", "kernel-rt", and "kpatch" are only migrated if still in "NEW" or "ASSIGNED". If you cannot log in to RH Jira, please consult article #7032570. That failing, please send an e-mail to the RH Jira admins at rh-issues@redhat.com to troubleshoot your issue as a user management inquiry. The email creates a ServiceNow ticket with Red Hat. Individual Bugzilla bugs that are migrated will be moved to status "CLOSED", resolution "MIGRATED", and set with "MigratedToJIRA" in "Keywords". The link to the successor Jira issue will be found under "Links", have a little "two-footprint" icon next to it, and direct you to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira (issue links are of type "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-XXXX", where "X" is a digit). This same link will be available in a blue banner at the top of the page informing you that that bug has been migrated.

Bug 1374241

Summary: interface name changed after reboot
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Jun Hu <juhu>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.2CC: systemd-maint-list, udev-maint-list
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-09-09 14:56:14 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:
Embargoed:

Description Jun Hu 2016-09-08 10:08:11 UTC
Description of problem:
interface name changed in a kvm vm after reboot

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
host:

[root@host0 log]# rpm -qa | grep udev 
python-gudev-147.2-7.el7.x86_64
libgudev1-219-19.el7.x86_64
python-pyudev-0.15-6.el7.noarch
[root@host0 log]# rpm -qa | grep libvirt 
libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64
libvirt-client-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-network-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64
libvirt-gobject-0.1.7-3.el7.x86_64
libvirt-glib-0.1.7-3.el7.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-config-network-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-kvm-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64
libvirt-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64
fence-virtd-libvirt-0.3.2-1.el7.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64
libvirt-gconfig-0.1.7-3.el7.x86_64
libvirt-python-1.2.8-7.el7_1.1.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-1.2.8-16.el7_1.4.x86_64

vm:
[root@rhv-h network-scripts]# rpm -q udev
package udev is not installed
[root@rhv-h network-scripts]# rpm -qa | grep udev 
libgudev1-219-19.el7_2.12.x86_64
python-pyudev-0.15-7.el7_2.1.noarch
python-gudev-147.2-7.el7.x86_64



How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.install a kvm rhel7 vm in rhel7 host, the vm has a virtio interface
2.add another interface with rt8139 driver, you will see eth0, ens9 interface name.
3.reboot, you will see eth0 name change to eth1, ens9 remains unchanged.

Actual results:
interface name changed after reboot

Expected results:
interface name remain unchanged.

Additional info:

Comment 2 Lukáš Nykrýn 2016-09-09 14:56:14 UTC
Well kernel names (ethN) are not persistent, there is nothing we can do about it. But I think that since 219-19 we also support persistent names for virtio device. Try to boot with net.ifnames=1 on the kernel command line.
All you can just pick some name a assign it to the device with specific hwaddress through ifcfg files. You just need to set DEVICE and HWADDR variables (but don't pick ethXX name).