[libvirt] [PATCH] Support reporting live interface IP/netmask.

[David Lutterkort]

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 14:17 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 10/06/2009 01:36 PM, David Lutterkort wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 10:13 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >    
> >> The live XML should *always* say what the inteface is doing right
> >> now.
> >>      
> > And from the rest of this exchange, I think the word 'only' should be
> > added to that sentence. In other words, the XML for live setups contains
> > *only* what we have figured out from the live setup, completely
> > disregarding config files - that also leaves us room to add more live
> > info as we gather more. For example, the entire live XML for any
> > interface will now look like
> >
> >          <interface name="eth0">
> >            <protocol family="ipv4">
> >              <ip address="192.168.0.52" prefix="24"/>
> >            </protocol>
> >          </interface>
> >
> > Note that that doesn't even indicate the type of the interface (which we
> > may add at some point, but since we do not have that info right now, we
> > won't pretend we know what the interface is)
> >    
> 
> 
> Interesting extrapolation. I can't say that I hadn't thought of it once 
> or twice, but figured it would be more convenient to have one-stop 
> shopping. (Also it will require a separate codepath for parse/format, 
> but maybe that's better anyway.)

Not necessarily - you just have to be mindful when parsing/formatting
that many things the schema says are mandatory are in fact optional.

> Should I code this up and see how it flies?

That's what I would do.

David