Test Day:2009-09-17 Virtualization KVM NIC Hotplug

What to test?
This part of today's Fedora Test Day will focus on testing the KVM NIC Hotplug feature in Fedora 12.

If you come to this page after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test NIC hotplug and provide feedback.

Who's available
Mark McLoughlin is your host for today.

The following people have also agreed to be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion:


 * add your name here

What's needed to test

 * A fully updated Fedora 12 Rawhide machine. See instructions on the main test day page.
 * At least one guest image installed before the test day (suggested reading - Virtualization_Quick_Start)

Test Cases
Things to test, roughly in dependency order:


 * 1) virsh attach/detach commands
 * 2) virt-manager hardware add/remove

Issues that were identified
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 * Tester || Description || Bug references || Status
 * mbanas || Detaching device through virsh detach-device command fails - libvirtd segfault|| 523953 || CLOSED libvirt-0.7.1-4.fc12
 * vbenes || libvirt cannot hot-unplug devices which were not previously hot-plugged || 524012 || ASSIGNED known issue; won't be fixed before Fedora 13
 * vbenes || qemu gets confused with NIC hotplug when no model is specified || 524022 || CLOSED qemu-kvm-0.10.92-5.fc12
 * jbao || libvirtd can not attach interface after detach NIC hot-plug device  || 525626 || CLOSED has been fixed
 * vbenes || qemu gets confused with NIC hotplug when no model is specified || 524022 || CLOSED qemu-kvm-0.10.92-5.fc12
 * jbao || libvirtd can not attach interface after detach NIC hot-plug device  || 525626 || CLOSED has been fixed
 * jbao || libvirtd can not attach interface after detach NIC hot-plug device  || 525626 || CLOSED has been fixed
 * jbao || libvirtd can not attach interface after detach NIC hot-plug device  || 525626 || CLOSED has been fixed