[libvirt] [PATCH] nwfilter: Display detected IP address in domain XML

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 09:27:15AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/11/2012 07:54 AM, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > Display detected IP addresses in the domain XML using the
> > IP_LEASE variable name. This variable name now becomes
> > a reserved variable name that can be read only but not set
> > by the user.
> > 
> > The format of the value is: <ip address>,<lease timeout in seconds>
> > 
> > An example of a displayed XML may then be:
> > 
> >     <interface type='bridge'>
> >       <mac address='52:54:00:68:e3:90'/>
> >       <source bridge='virbr0'/>
> >       <target dev='vnet1'/>
> >       <model type='virtio'/>
> >       <filterref filter='clean-traffic'>
> >         <parameter name='CTRL_IP_LEARNING' value='dhcp'/>
> >         <parameter name='IP_LEASE' value='192.168.122.210,100'/>
> 
> I still think we're wrong in doing it with something that the user has
> to reparse instead of being able to get at it via XPath queries.  Are we
> any better off having:
> 
> <parameter name='IP_LEASE_ADDRESS' value='192.168.122.210'/>
> <parameter name='IP_LEASE_TIMEOUT' value='100'/>
> 
> Or maybe feeding off of Laine's idea for keeping just one <parameter>,
> but adding additional attributes (the redundant value= attribute would
> remain, with redundant information, for back-compat), so that the XPath
> query is still possible by using the new attributes:
> 
> <parameter name='IP_LEASE_ADDRESS' value='192.168.122.210,100'
> address='192.168.122.210' timeout='100'/>

The <parameter> element handling is supposed to be agnostic to the
type of data present, so I'd be loathe to add specific address/timeout
attributes to it.

I think I'd prefer the idea of separate IP_LEASE_ADDRESS/TIMEOUT
parameters, or even just not show the timeout data at all.


Daniel
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