[libvirt] invoking interface.script - missing interface name of domain

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Jan 20 15:19:15 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 04:12:06PM +0100, Daniel Schwager wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i would like to write a small script 
> 	- bringing up my qemu-kvm interface and 
> 	- connecting it to a bridge 
> using the following XML domain-syntax :
> 
>     ....	
>     <interface type='ethernet'>
>       <script path='/etc/kvm/qemu-ifup'/>
>     </interface>
>     ....	
> 
> The script will invoked (from qemu-kvm I thinkg) but
> I can't find any arguments like "interface name" - so
> my script cannot setup the bridge correctly because of
> missing information about the interface name.
> 
> At the moment, I look to the PPID (parent pid of the script) and
> parse the qemu commandline (ps ef) to find out the interfacename -
> but it's only a workaround.
> 
> Q: Is there a way to get informed about the interface libvirt/quemu used
> for the new domain ?

QEMU is responsible for passing arguments to the interface scripts,
so its out of libvirt's control. QEMU passes a single paramter to
the script, which is the name of the TAP device interface being
added.  If you don't give a <target dev='tap3'> libvirt generates
a TAP device name vnetXXXX.

Daniel
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