How do I hot plug a NIC (network card) to a RHEL5 VM running on RHEV?

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Issue

  • In RHEL5, we can hot plug a NIC to the VM but inside the VM this NIC doesn't appear.
  • How to make this newly added NIC available to the VM?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtuazliation 3.1, 3.2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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