[virt-tools-list] IPv6 and DHCPv6 support

[Gene Czarcinski]

On 11/02/2012 12:17 PM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> Virt-manager lacks support for DHCPv6 and some other aspects of IPv6.  
> If you want the following entered into bugzilla, I will do so but I 
> thought that something to the list first might help.
>
> DHCPv6 support is in the process of being added to libvirt.  The 
> update is pretty much complete and lack some additional testing I want 
> to do and plus updating the documentation so that folks will know how 
> to use it.
>
> 1.  There is a lack of communication between what virsh net-* does and 
> virt-manager.  If virsh makes changes, the old values remain with 
> virt-manager.
>
> 2.  If virsh is used to add a IPv6 dhcp-range to a network definition, 
> virt-manager appears to get completely confused about that device ... 
> it should at least tolerate it!
>
> 3.  I should be able to specify an IPv6 (gateway) address with VM.
>
> 4. I should be able to create a virtual network with either IPv6 or 
> IPv4 or both defined.
>
> 5. I should be able to specify a dhcp-range for an IPv6 subnet.
>
> If VM was written in C I might be able to be more direct help. But, it 
> is written in python and my learning curve to get proficient enough 
> would be on the long-side.
>
> Is there any chance at least some of this will be addressed sooner 
> rather than later?
>
I was wrong about one thing:  VM can and does tolerate IPv6 dhcp-range 
and IPv6 dhcp-host specifications.

However, there was also a bug found ... it is valid to specify prefix= 
rather than netmask= for an IPv4 address definition but virt-manager 
cannot handle this.

Gene