[libvirt] Need to re-work final "peer address" patches and re-push them

Vasiliy Tolstov v.tolstov at selfip.ru
Mon May 16 15:09:43 UTC 2016


2016-05-12 22:31 GMT+03:00 Laine Stump <laine at laine.org>:
> To come back to the point:
>
> 1) libvirt attempts to provide the same end-result (or as close as possible)
> for all the hypervisors for any given configuration; I think that having <ip
> address='blah'> set the guest-side local IP on one hypervisor, and the host
> side local IP on another doesn't live up to "as close as possible". Those
> are different entities, and should be configured separately.
>

Yes, that does matter. May be in the feature we want to start dnsmasq
on this tap device...

> 2) It may be possible that there are valid configurations where guestPeer !=
> hostLocal orguestLocal != hostPeer; such a thing doesn't come to mind at the
> moment. If not, then having dual config so that all 4 can be represented
> seems like overkill. (I'm going to try some experiments with this after I'm
> done typing.) If we do decide that it is overkill, then rather than changing
> the semantics of <ip> based on which hypervisor we're using, I think it
> would be better that the address attribute of <ip>, which currently has
> meaning only for lxc and means "the local-side IP of the guest interface"
> should continue to have that meaning when support for setting IP addresses
> for qemu is added.
>
> 3) If we do want to configure the host-side local and peer addresses
> separately from the guest-side, then we could consider this:
>
>         <ip address='1.2.3.4' peer='4.3.2.1' prefix='8'/>
>         <source ..... >
>            <ip address='4.3.2.1' peer='1.2.3.4' prefix='32'/>
>         </source>
>
> (the ip element under "source" would be used to set the ip address on the
> host side. As an aside, it would have made more sense to have this IP
> address specified in the same place as the host-side device is named, but
> for some odd reason it is named in the <target> element, which has come to
> be the place where attributes pertaining to how the device appears on the
> *guest* side live :-/).




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Vasiliy Tolstov,
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