Sami Haahtinen a écrit : > Sylvain Amrani wrote: > >> After a recent etch upgrade (2.6.17, xen-3.0.2) I was unable to "xm > create" until I > >> "modprobe netloop nloopbacks=10" > >> > >> Error was network-bridge couln't create vif interface (backend not > found). > >> > >> brctl addbr ... fails because of no free netloop device. > >> passing more nloopbacks device to the module fixed the problem. > > This is caused by the module netloop not being loaded. I had to manually > add it to /etc/modules for things to work. > > Maybe network-bridge script should verify that this module is loaded or > the support enabled inside the kernel. Yes, I think it should, since :
# grep XEN_NETDEV_LOOPBACK /boot/config-2.6.16-2-xen-686 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_LOOPBACK=y # grep XEN_NETDEV_LOOPBACK /boot/config-2.6.17-2-xen-686 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_LOOPBACK=m Sure it would break every upgrades. Regards, Sylvain.
