[libvirt] [PATCH] virNetDevVethCreate: assign names based on mac address by default

[Oskari Saarenmaa]

29.08.2013 12:11, Gao feng kirjoitti:
>> The suggested patch also greatly simplifies name selection by removing
>> the loops trying to find a supposedly unused interface name.  If you
>> don't like using mac address in the interface name we could just replace
>> it with a random string with a loop checking that the selected name
>> wasn't in use when it was selected.  The current approach of trying to
>> use a name with a low number just doesn't work in an environment where
>> another process does the same thing.
>>
> 
> Use mac address to create an unique name is not a good idea,
> I suggest you pass an index to virLXCProcessSetupInterfaceBridged.
> use this index and domain_name to create an unique name.
> 
> Such as, for the first net interface for domain "fedora19"
> parentVeth's name is "fedora19-host-1", containerVeth is "fedora19-container-1"
> for the second interface,
> parentVeth's name is "fedora19-host-2", containerVeth is "fedora19-container-2"
> ...
> 
> find out a proper name for these veth device :)

Interface names are limited to 16 characters, so we can't really use the
full domain name there and I suppose it makes sense to prefix them with
"veth".  That leaves 12 characters for the which is enough for a random
name that will effectively never collide with anything else, but I'd
still prefer naming them according to the mac address.  The randomly
generated address with 3 random bytes is unique enough to be used as a
mac address in a network - it should be unique enough to be used as an
interface name on a single host (and you can still override it in domain
configuration if you want to.)

/ Oskari