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Re: [Xen-devel] Is it possible to disable vif completely?

To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Is it possible to disable vif completely?
From: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:43:15 +0000
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 09:28:50PM +0800, Tian, Kevin wrote:

> Ooops, I also saw "Device (vbd) could not be connected" warning. So seems
> that this issue can't be bypassed. After looking in the list, seems that
> some people are claiming udevd is a must now, is that right? (Anything
> more?) If yes, why is there no check upon udevd when installing tools, like
> for brctrl, etc? I think it's better to check whether all required tools
> installed before running xend/xm...

As I understand it, you need udevd >= 059, or hotplug otherwise.  If you want
to write a check for that, that would be great.

Ewan.

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