[libvirt] [PATCH 7/9] qemu: Fix networking for ARM guests

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Aug 1 08:09:26 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:14:37PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Similar to the chardev bit, ARM boards depend on the old style '-net nic'
> for actually instantiating net devices.
> 
> And add tests for working ARM XML with console, disk, and networking.
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c                            | 34 ++++++++++++++++------
>  src/qemu/qemu_domain.c                             | 20 +++++++++++--
>  .../qemuxml2argv-arm-vexpressa9-basic.args         |  1 +
>  .../qemuxml2argv-arm-vexpressa9-basic.xml          | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c                           |  3 ++
>  5 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-arm-vexpressa9-basic.args
>  create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-arm-vexpressa9-basic.xml
> 
> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
> index 248e4b4..3b275e3 100644
> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
> @@ -417,6 +417,26 @@ cleanup:
>      return ret;
>  }
>  
> +static bool
> +qemuDomainSupportsNicdev(virDomainDefPtr def, virQEMUCapsPtr qemuCaps)
> +{
> +    if (!virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE))
> +        return false;
> +
> +    /* arm boards require legacy -net nic */
> +    if (def->os.arch == VIR_ARCH_ARMV7L)
> +        return false;
> +
> +    return true;
> +}
> +
> +static bool
> +qemuDomainSupportsNetdev(virDomainDefPtr def, virQEMUCapsPtr qemuCaps)
> +{
> +    if (!qemuDomainSupportsNicdev(def, qemuCaps))
> +        return false;
> +    return virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_NETDEV);
> +}

Again, I think we should just not set the NETDEV capability for ARM

There's once place in the code below that doesn't currnetly check
NETDEV, but that seems like a bug.

Daniel
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