networking.usePredictableInterfaceNames = false; A must since it 'appeared' and got the default true! :)
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:29:45PM +0200, Mathijs Kwik wrote: > Hi all, > > Some time ago, udev changed to stable interface names for networking. > So instead of eth0 and eth1 you would get enp0s3 (wired) and wlp1s5 > (wireless) for example. And I think there existed a (nixos?) option to > stick to the previous behaviour for some time. > > I recently upgraded an older system to our new 14.04 release and noticed > it now uses the new naming scheme, while it previously still used the > old scheme. I could not find the use-old-scheme option, nor did I enable > such a thing in the past. > > I do not mind the new names (actually, I prefer them), so I changed all > references to the new names (firewall rules, custom networking setup, > vpn tweaking). This works fine on the real system, but I run into issues > when running such configuations in a vm. It seems qemu/kvm still has the > guest create eth0. > > Now, I can of course parameterise the entire config by an interface name > to easily modify the configuration for a vm build. But this is somewhat > ugly, especially because of the networking.interfaces.<name>. attrset. > > But I'm hoping there's a better/nicer way to either force some interface > name to vms, or have the real system stick to the old naming scheme. > > Any pointers? > Thanks, > Mathijs > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev