[libvirt] [V2 PATCH] V2 port-profile ID support using new IFLA_VF_PORTS netlink msg

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon May 24 10:03:20 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 04:52:44PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> Scott Feldman <scofeldm at cisco.com> wrote on 05/20/2010 03:22:12 PM:
> 
> > 
> > Next steps for V3, etc:
> > 
> > 1) merge with Stefan's latest patch, as much as possible
> 
> Yes. Try to make it a patch on top of my V5 patch...
> 
> > 2) assign VM device mac addr to eth and set macvtap mac addr to random
> 
> Hm, why is this necessary? I have tested the macvtap device and always set 
> it to the address that libvirt assigned to it and that happened to be the 
> same as the one inside the VM? Is this something specific to your 
> underlying driver?
> 
> > 3) figure out where host_uuid lives
> 
> I posted a message a while ago. It's not anywhere right now and should 
> probably be provided via libvirt.conf overriding dmidecode, but dmidecode 
> being used if its output is valid and resorting to a temporary (between 
> libvirt restart) host uuid if everything fails...

Agreed, we should likely put it in /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf and
have a convenience function  in src/util/uuid.h called virGetHostUUID()
so we avoid putting this logic in the drivers.

Daniel
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