SVDL creation fails on Fedora Core 3 because of lack of raw device support (4046199)

Title: Raw device support on Fedora Core 3 and 4
Date: 07/02/06
NV Version: 7.4 and higher
OS Version: Linux (Fedora Core 3 )
Application version: N/A
Plugin version: 1.7 and higher


Description:
The SVDL plugin relies on support for raw devices from the underlying operating system. This is not available out-of-the-box on Fedora Core 3 distributions and might affect other distributions as well.


Symptoms:
When trying to create an SVDL by right-clicking and selecting "Create SVDL" on a Fedora box, the cursor will transform into an egg timer and the window will appear to hang. Also, clients running Fedora won't be able to pick up an SVDL either.

Trace during an attempt to generate the SVDL will show:
0 DIRSCAN :5275 8 2 160547 Failed to open directory '/dev/raw': No such file or directory
0 SVDLPLGN:5275 13 0 160547 SVDLAddLibOpenGui: failed to scan for devices