[Libvir] [PATCH] Add a default network

[Mark McLoughlin]

Hey,
	So, we want to install a default network which guests can connect to.
This can be seen as e.g. a replacement for xenbr0 as the default bridge
for xen guests.

	A few things concern me about the patch, see below for my thinking.
However, I'm happy to punt on all of these issues for now and  go ahead
with the patch.

  1) Ordering - we want the default network to have a predictable bridge
     name, so instead of relying on it being the first network and 
     ending up auto-allocated vnet0, we use virbr0.

     The alternative is to actually have an ordering scheme, e.g.

       #define LIBVIRT_AUTOSTART_PRIORITY_DISABLE -1
       #define LIBVIRT_AUTOSTART_PRIORITY_FIRST   0
       #define LIBVIRT_AUTOSTART_PRIORITY_LAST    99
       #define LIBVIRT_AUTOSTART_PRIORITY_DEFAULT 50

       int virNetworkSetAutostart(virDomainPtr domain,
                                  int priority);

       autostart/00-default.xml -> ../default.xml
       autostart/99-MyNetwork.xml -> ../MyNetwork.xml

     Maybe that's useful, but probably moreso for guests than networks. 
     The "virbr0" solution is fine, IMHO.

  2) IP address choice - I've randomly chosen 192.168.122.1/24 as the 
     IP address for the network, and this could happen to clash with
     an existing network. Since we masquerade outgoing traffic, I think
     the only problem this would cause in practice would be where the
     host machine is already on a 192.168.122/24 subnet and it could 
     find itself connecting to a guest rather than another machine on 
     the physical subnet.

     It's a default configuration choice which admins can change, and I 
     don't see it causing huge problems in practice, so I'm not overly 
     concerned.

     If it did turn out to be a problem, I'd probably add something 
     like:

       <ip type="auto" />

     But I'm not anxious to go down that route right now.

  3) UUID generation - there's no UUID specified, so the default 
     network will have a different UUID across reboots.

     We could trivially save the UUID at first boot, but we'd really
     need to put it in /var then.

     IMHO, it's something we can fix later if it turns out to be 
     important.

Cheers,
Mark.
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