[libvirt] [PATCH 4/4] Add support for interfaces with type=direct to LXC

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Nov 10 14:32:22 UTC 2011


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 09:02:41AM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> On 11/10/2011 06:28 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >From: "Daniel P. Berrange"<berrange at redhat.com>
> >
> >Support creation of macvlan devices for LXC containers. Do not
> >allow setting of network filters, bandwidth controls or vport
> >profiles due to the complication that there is no host side
> >visible device to work with.
> >
> >* src/lxc/lxc_driver.c: Support type=direct interfaces
> >---
> >  src/lxc/lxc_driver.c |  106 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_driver.c b/src/lxc/lxc_driver.c
> >index 4f6807b..09752a3 100644
> >--- a/src/lxc/lxc_driver.c
> >+++ b/src/lxc/lxc_driver.c
> >@@ -1230,6 +1230,102 @@ cleanup:
> >      return ret;
> >  }
> >
> >+
> >+static int lxcSetupInterfaceDirect(virConnectPtr conn,
> >+                                   virDomainDefPtr def,
> >+                                   virDomainNetDefPtr net,
> >+                                   unsigned int *nveths,
> >+                                   char ***veths)
> >+{
> >+    int ret = 0;
> >+    char *res_ifname = NULL;
> >+    lxc_driver_t *driver = conn->privateData;
> >+    virNetDevBandwidthPtr bw;
> >+    virNetDevVPortProfilePtr prof;
> >+
> >+    /* XXX how todo filtering ?
> >+     * Since the 'net-ifname' is about to be moved to a different
> >+     * namespace&  renamed, there will be no host side visible
> >+     * interface for the container to attach rules to
> >+     */
> Afaik, filtering doesn't work on the direct interfaces anyway due to
> missing hooks in their kernel implementation. At least  I have been
> told so about the macvtap type of device.


Oh, I wonder why the filtering controls are set for macvtap devices
in the QEMU driver :-)


Daniel
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