On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 03:05:53PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote: > I have reworked and simplified the teardown of the macvtap device. > Basically all devices with the same MAC address and link device are kept > alive and not attempted to be torn down. If a macvtap device linked to a > physical interface with a certain MAC address 'M' is to be created it > will automatically fail if the interface is 'up'ed and another macvtap > with the same properties (MAC addr 'M', link dev) happens to be 'up'. > This will prevent the VM from starting or the device from being attached > to a running VM. Stale interfaces are assumed to be there for some > reason and not stem from libvirt. > > In the VM shutdown path I am assuming that an interface name is always > available so that if the device type is DIRECT it can be torn down using > its name. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx> > Okay, applied, I just removed an unused header pointed out by syntax-check :-) Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list