[libvirt] [PATCHv2] qemu: enable direct migration over IPv6

[Ján Tomko]

On 02/18/13 17:13, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
> On 02/18/2013 04:30 PM, Ján Tomko wrote:
>> +    if (getaddrinfo(hostname, NULL, NULL, &info)) {
>> +        VIR_WARN("unable to get address info for %s, defaulting to
>> IPv4",
>> +                 hostname);
>> +    } else {
>> +        ipv6 = info->ai_family == AF_INET6;
>> +    }
>> +
> getaddrinfo can return a list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for a hostname.
> If you want to give preference to the IPv6 address you will need to
> iterate the return info list. Alternatively you can pass in a hints
> addrinfo with ai_family set to AF_INET6.

I only wanted to check the first result, which is what QEMU on the
source will do (until http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;h=233aa5c in
1.3.0). This would break migration if the family of the first address is
different on the source and destination. I assume this is less likely
than getaddrinfo with INET6 hint returning an IPv6 address, even though
there is no IPv6 connectivity between them.

> In both cases you will have to call freeaddrinfo in the cleanup section
> to avoid a memory leak.
> 

Thanks for catching that.

Jan