[libvirt] [PATCH 0/7] QEMU network/bridge backed NIC hotplug

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Mon Jul 27 11:31:17 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:32:42AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 11:06 +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:57:29PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hey,
> > >         So, here are the patches needed to complete the QEMU NIC hotplug
> > > work by supporting network and bridge backed interfaces.
> > > 
> > >         We support this by passing a tap file descriptor to qemu over
> > > the monitor socket using SCM_RIGHTS.
> > > 
> > >         The monitor commands required for this (getfd and closefd) are
> > > queued up in Anthony's queue and should be in qemu-0.11-rc1 which is due
> > > to be released very soon:
> > > 
> > >   http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/aliguori-queue.git?a=commitdiff;h=4edd6c2645
> > >   http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/aliguori-queue.git?a=commitdiff;h=f4069061e3
> > > 
> > >         Note: I just remembered I'm not handling missing support for
> > > these commands very well. I'll make it handle an 'unknown command' reply
> > > gracefully by failing the attach tommorrow.
> > 
> >   Yes that's my main uncertainty about this patch set, we assume the
> > support is present and I don't see any detection code, can you send this
> > quickly to finish the serie of patches ?
> 
> Yep, the below hunk is all we need - I'll squash it into 7/7

  Okay, thanks !

Daniel

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