Bug 237055

Summary:	qemu can't generate the tap device with recent kernels
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David G. Mackay <mackay_d>
Component:	qemu	Assignee:	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	9	CC:	hdegoede
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description David G. Mackay 2007-04-18 23:37:35 EDT

Description of problem:
With kernels >= 2.6.18, creation of the tap device requires CAP_NET_ADMIN
capability.  As a result, qemu can't create the tap device.  

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Additional info:
One workaround is to use tunctl from the User Mode Linux uml_utils available via
http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/dl-sf.html.  The Copyright statement in
the spec file needs to be changed to License.  After that, an rpmbuild generates
an rpm.  It would be nice to have that in extras.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-13 22:47:09 EDT

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 3 Daniel Berrange 2008-06-11 06:10:13 EDT

QEMU requires root to create TAP devices. This is expected behaviour.

Use VDE or one of the non-TAP based networking options if running as non-root