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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Work around dhclient brokenness
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:15:17 +0300
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Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:40:55PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> Isn't that turned on automatically for real hardware?  And what's to 
>> prevent a broken dhclient together with the (presumably) hacked up 
>> initscripts that call ethtool?
>>     
>
> Well the idea is that only a fixed guest would even know about
> enabling this.
>   

I can think of problems with hotplugged virtio devices, but yes, this 
may be better.

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