[Libvir] vif-nat network setup

[Tomas Kouba]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 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 ?

Done as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217039

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Tomas Kouba