[libvirt] [PATCH 1/4] virsh: Document limitation of domifstat

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Fri Oct 13 17:44:41 UTC 2017



On 10/05/2017 10:18 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1497396
> 
> The current implementation reads the stats from the host.
> However, this doesn't work for all types of interfaces as not all
> of them have a representation in the host. For instance,
> interface type='user' doesn't.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> ---
>  tools/virsh.pod | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod
> index 00d93781a..632f202e8 100644
> --- a/tools/virsh.pod
> +++ b/tools/virsh.pod
> @@ -775,7 +775,9 @@ the guest OS via an agent. If unspecified, 'lease' is the default.
>  
>  =item B<domifstat> I<domain> I<interface-device>
>  
> -Get network interface stats for a running domain.
> +Get network interface stats for a running domain. This might be
> +unavailable for some types of interface which don't have
> +representation in the host, e.g. user.

What's not really clear is what "don't have representation in the host"
actually means.  I really think this needs to be a bit more specific as
to "why" something will fail.

If being too specific is an issue, then consider instead:

The network interface stats are only available for interfaces that have
a physical source interface. This does not include, for example, a
'user' interface type since it is a virtual LAN with NAT to the outside
world.

Curious, are there any others that might qualify?

Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>

John
>  
>  =item B<domif-setlink> I<domain> I<interface-device> I<state> [I<--config>]
>  
> 




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