[libvirt] [PATCH 14/17] qemu: support type='hostdev' network devices at domain start
Michal Privoznik
mprivozn at redhat.com
Mon Mar 5 20:45:44 UTC 2012
On 28.02.2012 21:14, Laine Stump wrote:
> This patch makes sure that each network device ("interface") of
> type='hostdev' appears on both the hostdevs list and the nets list of
> the virDomainDef, and it modifies the qemu driver startup code so that
> these devices will be presented to qemu on the commandline as hostdevs
> rather than as network devices.
>
> It does not add support for hotplug of these type of devices, or code
> to honor the <mac address> or <virtualport> given in the config (both
> of those will be done in separate patches).
>
> Once each device is placed on both lists, much of what this patch does
> is modify places in the code that traverse all the device lists so
> that these hybrid devices are only acted on once - either along with
> the other hostdevs, or along with the other interfaces. (In many
> cases, only one of the lists is traversed / a specific operation is
> performed on only one type of device. In those instances, the code can
> remain unchanged.)
>
> There is one special case - when building the commandline, interfaces
> are allowed to proceed all the way through
> networkAllocateActualDevice() before deciding to skip - this is so
> that (once we have support for networks with pools of hostdev devices)
> we can get the actual device allocated, then rely on the loop
> processing all hostdevs to generate the correct commandline.
> ---
> New patch in V2.
>
> src/conf/domain_conf.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++---
> src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 36 ++++++++++++--
> .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-net-hostdev.args | 7 +++
> .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-net-hostdev.xml | 7 ---
> tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 2 +
> 5 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-net-hostdev.args
>
ACK
Michal
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