<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/07/13 19:21, Osier Yang wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:51F10A41.3010808@redhat.com" type="cite">On 25/07/13 19:13, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: <blockquote type="cite">On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 07:01:05PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote: <blockquote type="cite">On 25/07/13 18:53, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: <blockquote type="cite">On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 06:43:00PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote: <blockquote type="cite">On 25/07/13 17:35, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: <blockquote type="cite">On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 02:02:36PM +0530, Nehal J. Wani wrote: <blockquote type="cite">Currently, there is no API which returns configuration/state paths of the network driver. Although it is a private implementation of the network driver, I don't see any harm in making the locations public because although the locations might change, there will always be a location for these files. There is a need for this API to implement method 2 of the "API to query ip addresses of a given domain", refer: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list@redhat.com/msg79793.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list@redhat.com/msg79793.html</a> . It is required to parse the leases file generated by dnsmasq. So, this API will be used by the qemu driver, but it can also be made public, so that, if a user wants to know get some information from a configuration file, he can get the location from libvirt and analyze it on his own. Right now, there is an alternate way to get the info: by using networkDnsmasqLeaseFileNameDefault, defined in /src/network/bridge_driver.c Since this function is static, it is part of the private implementation and not visible outside. To make it public, the following hack is possible: </blockquote> NACK, As I explained on IRC, the hypervisor drivers have no business accessing the dnsmasq lease files from the bridge driver. This is considered to be a private implementation detail. At a conceptual level, what you're after here is a list of all the IP, mac address mappings of the virtual network. This information is useful even outside the context of the hypervisor driver method you're working on. So we should create formal APIs for exposing this, something like: virNetworkGetDHCPLeases(virNetworkPtr network, virNetworkDHCPLeasePtr *leases, unsigned int nleases); </blockquote> i'm wondering if it should be more than just the lease file path, e.g. also the $net.conf, $net-radvd.conf, etc, though they are useless now, but may be useful in future, i.e. to have a more general api than this one. and in that case, it should return an array of typed parameter instead. </blockquote> We've already discussed this in the context of the virDomain API for getting IP addresses & decided that virTypedParameter was not appropriate there & we'd use a struct. The same arguments apply here IMHO. </blockquote> the api to get the ip addresses is more complicate than this, and we finally chose the struct is because of the multiple level information is hard to constuct with typed parameter, but for this api, it's different, as it just needs to return the file paths. </blockquote> No, file paths will absolutely never be exposed outside of the bridge driver. The API I suggest above are about exposing the IP address + MAC address of current leases. ie the actual data the user needs, *not* the file path containing the data which is a private impl detail. </blockquote> oh, i see, agreed with the idea then. </blockquote> for the api interface: int <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <div class="message consecutive outgoing" style="word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(46, 52, 54); font-family: Sans; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">virNetworkGetDHCPLeases(virNetworkPtr network, <div '="" style="word-wrap: break-word; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; word-break: break-word; display: inline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> unsigned char *macaddr, virNetworkDHCPLeasePtr *leases, unsigned int nleases); </div> </div> i think this is better. which returns all of the leases if no mac is specified. otherwise just returns the lease of the network matches the mac. osier </body> </html>