[Libvir] [PATCH] Allow selection of the NIC model in QEMU/KVM

Soren Hansen soren at ubuntu.com
Tue Apr 29 08:02:17 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:57:15PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> This patch seems incomplete - there's no code to include the <model>
> tag when dumping the XML.

FWIW, The patch I applied in Ubuntu to do this, looks like this. It
obviously still lack the test case updates and such, though.


Index: docs/libvir.html
===================================================================
--- docs/libvir.html.orig	2008-04-11 12:55:19.672613742 -0500
+++ docs/libvir.html	2008-04-11 12:55:57.223628370 -0500
@@ -1041,6 +1041,14 @@
   <mac address="11:22:33:44:55:66"/>                                     
 </interface>
     </pre>
+    <pre>
+<interface type='user'>
+  <mac address="11:22:33:44:55:66"/>
+  <model type="ne2k_pci"/>
+</interface>
+    </pre>
+    <p>(where the network card model is one of those supported by
+      QEMU or KVM - see the relevant manual pages).</p>
   </li>
   <li>Virtual network
     <p>Provides a virtual network using a bridge device in the host.
Index: src/qemu_conf.c
===================================================================
--- src/qemu_conf.c.orig	2008-04-11 12:55:19.692607157 -0500
+++ src/qemu_conf.c	2008-04-11 12:56:13.688628360 -0500
@@ -605,6 +605,7 @@
     xmlChar *script = NULL;
     xmlChar *address = NULL;
     xmlChar *port = NULL;
+    xmlChar *model = NULL;
 
     net->type = QEMUD_NET_USER;
 
@@ -666,6 +667,8 @@
                        (net->type == QEMUD_NET_ETHERNET) &&
                        xmlStrEqual(cur->name, BAD_CAST "script")) {
                 script = xmlGetProp(cur, BAD_CAST "path");
+            } else if (xmlStrEqual (cur->name, BAD_CAST "model")) {
+                model = xmlGetProp (cur, BAD_CAST "type");
             }
         }
         cur = cur->next;
@@ -823,6 +826,38 @@
         xmlFree(address);
     }
 
+    /* NIC model (see -net nic,model=?).  We only check that it looks
+     * reasonable, not that it is a supported NIC type.  FWIW kvm
+     * supports these types as of April 2008:
+     * i82551 i82557b i82559er ne2k_pci pcnet rtl8139 e1000 virtio
+     */
+    if (model != NULL) {
+        int i, len, char_ok;
+
+        len = xmlStrlen (model);
+        if (len >= QEMUD_MODEL_MAX_LEN) {
+            qemudReportError (conn, NULL, NULL, VIR_ERR_INVALID_ARG,
+                              _("Model name '%s' is too long"), model);
+            goto error;
+        }
+        for (i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
+            char_ok =
+                (model[i] >= '0' && model[i] <= '9') ||
+                (model[i] >= 'a' && model[i] <= 'z') ||
+                (model[i] >= 'A' && model[i] <= 'Z') || model[i] == '_';
+            if (!char_ok) {
+                qemudReportError (conn, NULL, NULL, VIR_ERR_INVALID_ARG,
+                                  _("Model name contains invalid characters"));
+                goto error;
+            }
+        }
+        strncpy (net->model, BAD_CAST model, len);
+        net->model[len] = '\0';
+
+        xmlFree (model);
+    } else
+        net->model[0] = '\0';
+
     return 0;
 
  error:
@@ -838,6 +873,8 @@
         xmlFree(script);
     if (bridge)
         xmlFree(bridge);
+    if (model)
+        xmlFree(model);
     return -1;
 }
 
@@ -1678,13 +1715,22 @@
     } else {
         int vlan = 0;
         while (net) {
+            char model[100];
             char nic[100];
 
-            if (snprintf(nic, sizeof(nic), "nic,macaddr=%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x,vlan=%d",
+            if (net->model[0] != '\0') {
+                if (snprintf (model, sizeof (model), ",model=%s", net->model)
+                    >= sizeof (model))
+                    goto error;
+            } else
+                model[0] = '\0';
+
+            if (snprintf(nic, sizeof(nic),
+                         "nic,macaddr=%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x,vlan=%d%s",
                          net->mac[0], net->mac[1],
                          net->mac[2], net->mac[3],
                          net->mac[4], net->mac[5],
-                         vlan) >= sizeof(nic))
+                         vlan, model) >= sizeof(nic))
                 goto error;
 
             if (!((*argv)[++n] = strdup("-net")))
@@ -2881,6 +2927,11 @@
                     goto no_memory;
             }
         }
+        if (net->model && net->model[0] != '\0') {
+            if (virBufferVSprintf(buf, "      <model type='%s'/>\n",
+                                  net->model) < 0)
+                    goto no_memory;
+        }
 
         if (virBufferVSprintf(buf, "    </interface>\n") < 0)
             goto no_memory;
Index: src/qemu_conf.h
===================================================================
--- src/qemu_conf.h.orig	2008-04-11 12:55:19.716629596 -0500
+++ src/qemu_conf.h	2008-04-11 12:55:57.351638875 -0500
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
 };
 
 #define QEMUD_MAC_ADDRESS_LEN 6
+#define QEMUD_MODEL_MAX_LEN 10
 #define QEMUD_OS_TYPE_MAX_LEN 10
 #define QEMUD_OS_ARCH_MAX_LEN 10
 #define QEMUD_OS_MACHINE_MAX_LEN 10
@@ -90,6 +91,7 @@
 struct qemud_vm_net_def {
     int type;
     unsigned char mac[QEMUD_MAC_ADDRESS_LEN];
+    char model[QEMUD_MODEL_MAX_LEN];
     union {
         struct {
             char ifname[BR_IFNAME_MAXLEN];

-- 
Soren Hansen               | 
Virtualisation specialist  | Ubuntu Server Team
Canonical Ltd.             | http://www.ubuntu.com/
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