On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 03:12:56PM -0500, izzy Meyer wrote: > vm debian Oct 12 15:09:13 Tower-OpenBaSeD vmd[38243]: config_setvm: > can't open /dev/tap4 Oct 12 15:09:13 Tower-OpenBaSeD vmd[38243]: failed > to start vm debian Oct 12 15:09:25 Tower-OpenBaSeD vmd[60481]: denied > request 3 from uid 1000 Oct 12 15:09:32 Tower-OpenBaSeD vmd[38243]: > config_setvm: can't open /dev/tap4 Oct 12 15:09:32 Tower-OpenBaSeD > vmd[38243]: failed to start vm debian > > This is weird as I only see 4 existing tap(4) devices in /dev: > ~ $ ls /dev/tap* > /dev/tap0 /dev/tap1 /dev/tap2 /dev/tap3 > > Do I need to MAKEDEV more tap(4) devices to fix this? I'm too worried > I'll break something if I try
Creating the missing tap devices with MAKEDEV is indeed the right thing to do here. There shouldn't be any problems caused by doing this. I wish vmd did report the filename it failed to open in the error message.
