[libvirt] Cannot enumerate physical devices with libvirt 0.7.6

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:05:21PM +0100, Fr?d?ric Grelot wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I often update my F12 box with the rawvirt repository, which just installed libvirt 0.7.6. Since that, I cannot enumerate physical devices (and thus get a beautiful error when I start one of my vms that should use a USB device).
> 
> I don't think I changed anything else on that box, and, of course, I already restarted the libvirt daemon.
> I haven't restarted the server itself, because it is currently used, but I could do it if necessary...
> 
> I make good use of the qemu hypervisor, and I'm looking forward to solve this issue!
> 
> Frederic.
> 
> # libvirtd --version
> libvirtd (libvirt) 0.7.6
> 
> # virsh --version
> 0.7.6
> 
> # virsh nodedev-list
> error :Failed to count node devices
> error :this function is not supported by the hypervisor: virNodeNumOfDevices

It would appear that the udev driver failed to start - there are probably
messages in syslog about the problem


Regards,
Daniel
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