Bug 1259015 – persistent interface names for virtio interfaces

Bug 1259015 - persistent interface names for virtio interfaces

Summary:	persistent interface names for virtio interfaces

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	systemd (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	unspecified Severity urgent
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	systemd-maint
QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
Docs Contact:	Jana Heves

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Blocks:	1252514
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Reported:	2015-09-01 14:41 EDT by Harald Hoyer
Modified:	2015-11-19 10:08 EST (History)
CC List:	12 users (show)

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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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Last Closed:	2015-11-19 10:08:20 EST
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Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2015-09-02 08:35:39 EDT

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/54683f0f9b97a8f88aaf4fbb45b4d729057b101c

Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2015-09-02 08:42:14 EDT

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.

Comment 4 Lukáš Nykrýn 2015-09-02 09:01:46 EDT

https://github.com/lnykryn/systemd-rhel/commit/bd1bb4504d1afe264fd3f739614b97aac8d62bf0

Comment 9 Lukáš Nykrýn 2015-10-09 08:59:27 EDT

Let's make this new behavior opt-in:

https://github.com/lnykryn/systemd-rhel/commit/727e60797beff565a2f1d16bd63aa6bb7b5a787f

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 10:08:20 EST

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

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