On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 2:23 PM Adam Williamson
<adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2019-03-18 at 14:07 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > Historically in Fedora the /dev/net/tun device always existed, even if
> > there is no 'tun' module currently loaded. Opening it then cause the
> > 'tun' kernel module to autoload IIUC.
> >
> > In Fedora 31 rawhide this is no longer the case. The /dev/net/tun device
> > node doesn't exist at all in a fresh install.
> >
> > Libvirt has always assumed the historical behaviour so currently it fails
> > to setup networking due to /dev/net/tun no longer existing.
> >
> > I expect other applications which deal with tun devices will be similarly
> > affected.
> >
> > I'm wondering if anyone can explain whether this is an intentional change
> > in setup of /dev/ in Fedora 31 rawhide, or whether it is a bug that needs
> > to be fixed ?  I'm struggling to figure out what changed - presumably
> > something related to udev but the rules wrt /dev/net/tun appear the same
> > in F30 and F31.
>
> I'd guess it's most likely a kernel change, so ask laura / justin
> maybe?

I would have guessed at udev change as the kernel doesn't make /dev anything.
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