[libvirt] [PATCH] vmx: add support for hostonly interfaces

[Ján Tomko]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 03:26:45PM +0000, Javier Uruen Val wrote:
>Vmware fusion allows you to configure a network interface
>as "hostonly". This uses a private network that is not
>normally accessible from the physical networks on the
>Mac/PC.
>

So this is just for guest <-> host communication and the guest cannot
communicate with the world?

>We map "hostonly" in the vmx configuration to "network"
>in the domain configuration. Some comments in vmx.c
>seem to point towards using this mapping and not other
>such as "internal" or something else.
>

Which comments?

If you cannot use a network defined in libvirt's network driver with the
interface, I don't think type='network' is the right match.

Sadly, we don't seem to have documentation for type='internal'.

>Added tests and configuration files from actual vmx
>machines configured with "hostonly".
>
>Signed-off-by: Javier Uruen Val <javi.uruen at gmail.com>
>---
> src/vmx/vmx.c                                 |  19 ++-
> .../vmx2xml-fusion-in-the-wild-2.vmx          | 115 ++++++++++++++++++
> .../vmx2xml-fusion-in-the-wild-2.xml          |  34 ++++++
> tests/vmx2xmltest.c                           |   1 +
> .../xml2vmx-fusion-in-the-wild-2.vmx          |  36 ++++++
> .../xml2vmx-fusion-in-the-wild-2.xml          |  31 +++++
> tests/xml2vmxtest.c                           |   1 +
> 7 files changed, 231 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-fusion-in-the-wild-2.vmx
> create mode 100644 tests/vmx2xmldata/vmx2xml-fusion-in-the-wild-2.xml
> create mode 100755 tests/xml2vmxdata/xml2vmx-fusion-in-the-wild-2.vmx
> create mode 100644 tests/xml2vmxdata/xml2vmx-fusion-in-the-wild-2.xml
>

And some changes to docs/formatdomain.html.in to tell people how to use
it would be beneficial.

Jano
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