[libvirt] [PATCHv2 00/13] IPv6 support for virtual networks using bridge driver

[Laine Stump]

I squashed in all of Eric's recommendations and pushed this entire series.

Thanks for the great reviews Eric!


On 12/22/2010 01:57 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
> This is a resend of
>
>     https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-December/msg00765.html
>
> incorporating changes due to comments from Eric Blake and Paweł Krześniak.
>
> changes from v1 to v2 are noted in each individual mail
>
> -----
> Most of this patchset is setup for patch 09/13, which updates the
> network XML parser to support IPv6, and 12/13, which turns on IPv6 in
> the bridge driver.
>
> In order to have each patch individually pass make check and
> (otherwise function properly in case someone is doing a bisect), there
> is a bit of extra code churn (lines that are changed in one patch,
> only to be changed again in a later patch); I tried to minimize this
> as much as possible.
>
> For for IPv6 to work correctly, target *and build* systems will
> now need to have ip6tables and radvd available. The way I added
> ip6tables into autoconfigure.ac is identical to existing iptables, and
> the way I added radvd is identical to dnsmasq. Unfortunately this
> doesn't communicate the requirement downstream in a programmatic
> fashion, so I guess we need to make sure that this is adequately
> reported in the next set of release notes.
>
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