[Libguestfs] [PATCH API PROPOSAL 0/2] inspection: Add network interfaces to inspection data.

[Pino Toscano]

On Monday, 1 October 2018 13:28:26 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> As part of the fix for:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1626503
> 
> I'm proposing to add two new APIs to fetch information about the list
> of network interfaces of an existing guest.  These two patches outline
> the proposed API but with no implementation or tests.  However they
> can be applied and compiled.
> 
> Please see the second patch for the proposed API.
> 
> I have a mostly working implementation for Red Hat-style ifcfg-*
> files, and both Debian /etc/network/interfaces and Windows registry
> look do-able using the same architecture.

It is hard to see whether this API is enough to cover the use case,
without an actual implementation.

I remember RFCs for virt-builder/virt-customize to change the network
configuration of a guest, and even just determining the actual
configuration that a guest will have is very hard: you can have
multiple network-related daemon installed in the guest, different
available configurations (even stale ones, if they were not cleaned
when their system was removed), and so on.
Hence, I am notsure whether trying to get any data is better than just
not provide any at all...

-- 
Pino Toscano
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