[Libvir] vif-nat network setup

[Daniel Veillard]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:02:30PM +0100, Tomas Kouba wrote:
> Hello,
> is it possible to setup a NAT-ed network with libvir?
> My dom0 is configured so that it does a router for domUs and it
> also does NAT for domUs. I can set this up manually but now I would
> like to install some other domUs automatically with virt-install.
> 
> I see that it uses libvir to create new domain from the XML description
> so it should be easy to add some option that would configure the XML, but
> I cannot find if the XML supports NAT setup.
> 
> If I try 'virsh dumpxml' when the domU runs I get this:
> 
> Unimplemented block at xend_internal.c:1667
> <domain type='xen' id='1'>
>   <name>ce</name>
>   <uuid>400be3cf7cedc1d388de8796a85daff1</uuid>
>   <os>
>     <type>linux</type>
>     <kernel>/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-prep</kernel>
>     <initrd>/boot/initrd-2.6.18-prep.img</initrd>
>     <root>/dev/sda1</root>
>     <cmdline>fastboot ro root=/dev/sda1</cmdline>
>   </os>
>   <memory>131072</memory>
>   <vcpu>1</vcpu>
>   <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
>   <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
>   <on_crash>restart</on_crash>
>   <devices>
> <!-- Failed to parse vif: (device (vif (backend 0) (script vif-nat) (ip 
> 10.0.9.1/24) (mac 00:16:3E:47:A1:09) (vifname cevif))) -->
>     <console tty='/dev/pts/2'/>
>   </devices>
> </domain>
> 

  Hum, looks like a missing feature, can you bugzilla this ?

Daniel

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