bDescription of problem: During startup of a VM, Xenner enables the TUNSETPERSIST flag for the TAP device it is passed. The network device details are not written into Xenstore for netbackd until later during Xenner startup, and netbackd then makes it non persistent. If Xenner fails during this window for any reason, you are left with a TAP device that will never go away. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xenner-0.33 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Invoke xenner passing a pre-allocated TAP filedescriptor in the -net command line arg, along with another arg that will cause it to fail to boot - eg point it to a disk image which doesn't have any OS installed, so pygrub fails, or don't start the 'xenner' initscript. 2. ifconfig -a 3. Actual results: xenner quits, but tap device still exists Expected results: xenner quits and device goes away Additional info: It appears the only reason Xenner makes the TAP device persistent is so that netbackd can then open the interface. Might it be possible to avoid this approach by having Xenner pass the FD directly to netbackd over a UNIX domain socket using SCM_RIGHTS ?
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
Fixed in 0.35.