[libvirt] [PATCH libvirt master v2] interface type: add udp socket support
Jonathan Toppins
jtoppins at cumulusnetworks.com
Mon Aug 31 20:06:18 UTC 2015
On 08/31/2015 03:25 PM, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi,
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 04:19:10PM -0400, Jonathan Toppins wrote:
>> Adds a new interface type using UDP sockets, this seems only applicable
>> to QEMU but have edited tree-wide to support the new interface type.
>>
>> The interface type required the addition of a "localaddr" (local
>> address), this then maps into the following xml and qemu call.
>>
>> <interface type='udp'>
>
>
> Sine we do have
>
> <interface type='mcast'>
>
> already wouldn't it be better to have something like
>
> <interface type='ucast' protocol='udp'>
>
This possibly could be better, my concern would be now tcp is configured
differently than udp, no? Or are you saying something like:
<interface type='ucast' protocol='udp|tcp'>
My concern here is this would be a bigger change and does libvirt have a
stable xml configuration guarantee?
Thanks,
-Jon
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