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I have a Debian Squeeze (2.6.32-5) guest in KVM that has all virtio network interfaces, and their MACs are apparently blacklisted by udev as per /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules such that /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules is not generated.

I tried making a /etc/udev/rules.d/010_netinterfaces.rules file to define eth(foo) per MAC(foo), but it was ignored.

So now I'm unable to explicitly define interface names.

Can someone advise as to how the /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules needs to be edited whitelist these MACs?

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Apparently /etc/udev/rules.d/010_netinterfaces.rules is ignored in Squeeze.

I ended up editing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.

Then renamed /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules to /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules.disabled so /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules would stay put.

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