If a box with vlany installed and running on Debian 7 upgrade to Debian 8 the box will never reboot because of the bug with udev (a component of systemd) or if a box running any distribution switch to another init manager (Gentoo gives the ability to do this: https://elatov.github.io/2015/02/upgrade-gentoo-to-use-systemd/) the same bug will appears.
Scanning the box each minute to detect systemd binaries and if detected apply a patch (?).
Detecting changes made to the bootloader by for example on Grub2 scanning if the argument GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX is modified and if detected apply a patch.
If a box with vlany installed and running on Debian 7 upgrade to Debian 8 the box will never reboot because of the bug with udev (a component of systemd) or if a box running any distribution switch to another init manager (Gentoo gives the ability to do this: https://elatov.github.io/2015/02/upgrade-gentoo-to-use-systemd/) the same bug will appears.
There are a few method to prevent the brick:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
is modified and if detected apply a patch.