[et-mgmt-tools] Anyone have a bonding device setup working with virt-manager?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:47:23AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Back in February, support for checking bonding and vlan devices was
> added to virt-manager, and released in version 0.5.4. I'm curious if
> anyone has a working setup with this code?
> 
> Reason I ask is that I backported this code to rhel5.2 and it doesn't
> seem to work, because of the following bit:
> 
> +    def _net_get_bonding_masters(self):
> +        masters = []
> +        f = open("/sys/class/net/bonding_masters")
> +        while True:
> +            rline = f.readline()
> +            if not rline: break
> +            if rline == "\x00": continue
> +            rline = rline.strip("\n\t")
> +            masters = rline[:-1].split(' ')
>                              ^^^
>                           this piece
> +        return masters
> 
> For some reason the last character is stripped off, which breaks all
> the setups I've tested on. Clearly this must have worked for someone
> at some time, so I would be curious to get some help from someone with
> a working setup, since there must be some middle ground that can work
> for both parties. I've tried contacting the original author but haven't
> received a response.

Interesting - that code was tested on a machine running Fedora 8 IIRC
so its quite possible the older RHEL-5 kernel had slightly different
info in sysfs.

Daniel
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