Bug#627931: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules not generated

[md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)]

Does anybody have an opinion about this?

----- Forwarded message from Christian Hammers <chammers@netcologne.de> -----

From: Christian Hammers <chammers@netcologne.de>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Bug#627931: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules not generated on
	VMware

Package: udev
Version: 164-3
Severity: normal


On VMware the creation of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules is
inhibited by the following block in 
 
/lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules:
# ignore interfaces with locally administered or null MAC addresses
# and KVM and VMWare virtual interfaces
ENV{MATCHADDR}="?[2367abef]:*",        ENV{MATCHADDR}=""
ENV{MATCHADDR}="00:00:00:00:00:00",    ENV{MATCHADDR}=""
ENV{MATCHADDR}="00:0c:29:*|00:50:56:*", ENV{MATCHADDR}=""
ENV{MATCHADDR}="52:54:00:*|54:52:00:*", ENV{MATCHADDR}=""

Please remove the exception for VMware as it's possible to
choose different network drivers (vmxnet3/e1000) for virtual
machines and this have the same problem as normal PCs that
the system does not boot correctly after a new kernel is 
installed.

bye,

-christian-


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANGÞ_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPEÞ_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.36.1         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libselinux1             2.0.96-1         SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libudev0                164-3            libudev shared library
ii  libusb-0.1-4            2:0.1.12-16      userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  util-linux              2.17.2-9         Miscellaneous system utilities

Versions of packages udev recommends:
ii  pciutils                      1:3.1.7-6  Linux PCI Utilities
ii  usbutils                      0.87-5     Linux USB utilities

udev suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  udev/new_kernel_needed: false
  udev/sysfs_deprecated_incompatibility:
  udev/title/upgrade:
  udev/reboot_needed:


----- End forwarded message -----

-- 
ciao,
Marco