[libvirt] LXC: autostart feature does set all interfaces to state up.

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 12.07.2013 03:36, schrieb Gao feng:
> On 07/11/2013 07:58 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Am 11.07.2013 11:49, schrieb Daniel P. Berrange:
>>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:44:48AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>> Am 11.07.2013 11:42, schrieb Gao feng:
>>>>> On 07/11/2013 03:18 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>>>> This morning I've installed a wrapper around ip to show me the process tree upon ip link ... down is used.
>>>>>> The log showed this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   769 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
>>>>>> 17759 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
>>>>>> 17764 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
>>>>>> 17772 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
>>>>>> 19477 ?        S      0:00  |   \_ /bin/bash /sbin/ifdown veth5 -o hotplug
>>>>>> 19910 ?        S      0:00  |       \_ /sbin/ip link set dev veth5 down
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now I have to urge to use a "Kantholz". ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> hmmm...
>>>>>
>>>>> it's systemd... I have no idea now... :(
>>>>
>>>> TBH it is not systemd's fault.
>>>> OpenSUSE's /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/77-network.rules did not white list veth* devices.
>>>> Therefore systemd-udevd called ifup/down and other hotplug magic.
>>>
>>> Ah ha, that's a nice issue :-) I assume you've filed a bug against opensuse
>>> to fix this ? Can you post a link to the bug here for the sake of archive
>>> records.
>>
>> Sure:
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829033
>>
> 
> It's good news we know what causes veth device down. :)

How does Fedora deal with veth devices?
SUSE folks think that this is a more likely a libvirt issue and closed my bug report as invalid...

Thanks,
//richard