virConnectSetKeepAlive public API can be used by a client connecting to
remote server to start using keepalive protocol. The API is handled
directly by remote driver and not transmitted over the wire to the
server.
The keepalive program has two procedures: PING, and PONG.
Both are used only in asynchronous messages and the sender doesn't wait
for any reply. However, the party which receives PING messages is
supposed to react by sending PONG message the other party, but no
explicit binding between PING and PONG messages is made. For backward
compatibility neither server nor client are allowed to send keepalive
messages before checking that remote party supports them.
Jiri Denemark [Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:11:02 +0000 (14:11 +0100)]
rpc: Fix handling of non-blocking calls that could not be sent
When virNetClientIOEventLoop is called for a non-blocking call and not
even a single byte can be sent from this call without blocking, we
properly reported that to the caller which properly frees the call. But
we never removed the call from a call queue.
Peter Krempa [Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:51:28 +0000 (15:51 +0100)]
qemu: Avoid dereference of NULL pointer
If something fails while initializing qemu job object in
qemuDomainObjPrivateAlloc(), memory to the private pointer is freed, but
after that, the pointer is still dereferenced, which may result in a
segfault.
Eric Blake [Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:26:32 +0000 (07:26 -0700)]
qemu: fix a const-correctness issue
Generally, functions which return malloc'd strings should be typed
as 'char *', not 'const char *', to make it obvious that the caller
is responsible to free things. free(const char *) fails to compile,
and although we have a cast embedded in VIR_FREE to work around poor
code that frees const char *, it's better to not rely on that hack.
Eric Blake [Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:15:43 +0000 (17:15 -0700)]
API: prefer 'disk' over 'block' or 'path'
Given that we can now handle the target's disk shorthand, in addition
to an absolute path to the file or block device used on the host,
the term 'disk' fits a bit better as the parameter name than 'path'.
Eric Blake [Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:55:30 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
blockstats: support lookup by path in blockstats
Commit 89b6284f made it possible to pass either a source name or
the target device to most API demanding a disk designation, but
forgot to update the documentation. It also failed to update
virDomainBlockStats to take both forms. This patch fixes both the
documentation and the remaining function.
Xen continues to use just device shorthand (that is, I did not
implement path lookup there, since xen does not track a domain_conf
to quickly tie a path back to the device shorthand).
Up to now users have to give a full XML description on input when
device-detaching. If they omitted something it lead to unclear
error messages (like generated MAC wasn't found, etc.).
With this patch users can specify only those information which
specify one device sufficiently precise. Remaining information is
completed from domain.
Stefan Berger [Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:05:45 +0000 (19:05 -0500)]
Enable detection of multiple IP addresses
In preparation of DHCP Snooping and the detection of multiple IP
addresses per interface:
The hash table that is used to collect the detected IP address of an
interface can so far only handle one IP address per interface. With
this patch we extend this to allow it to handle a list of IP addresses.
Above changes the returned variable type of virNWFilterGetIpAddrForIfname()
from char * to virNWFilterVarValuePtr; adapt all existing functions calling
this function.
It will show this error message:
'no connection driver available for No connection for URI jj#j'
Actually,we expect this message below:
Malformed 'uri_aliases' config entry 'jj#j=qemu+ssh://root@127.0.0.1/system', aliases may only contain 'a-Z, 0-9, _, -'
Stefan Berger [Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:12:03 +0000 (15:12 -0500)]
Add support for STP filtering
This patch adds support for filtering of STP (spanning tree protocol) traffic
to the parser and makes us of the ebtables support for STP filtering. This code
now enables the filtering of traffic in chains with prefix 'stp'.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Stefan Berger [Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:12:03 +0000 (15:12 -0500)]
Add a 'mac' chain
With hunks borrowed from one of David Steven's previous patches, we now
add the capability of having a 'mac' chain which is useful to filter
for multiple valid MAC addresses.
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Chang Liu [Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:24:25 +0000 (15:24 +0800)]
storage: Fallback to use lvchange first if lvremove fails
virStorageBackendLogicalDeleteVol() could not remove the lv with error
"could not remove open logical volume" sometimes. Generally it's caused
by the volume is still active, even if lvremove tries to remove it with
option "--force".
This patch is to fix it by disbale the lv first using "lvchange -aln"
and "lvremove -f" afterwards if the direct "lvremove -f" failed.
Srivatsa S. Bhat [Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:31:22 +0000 (11:31 +0800)]
Export KVM Host Power Management capabilities
This patch exports KVM Host Power Management capabilities as XML so that
higher-level systems management software can make use of these features
available in the host.
The script "pm-is-supported" (from pm-utils package) is run to discover if
Suspend-to-RAM (S3) or Suspend-to-Disk (S4) is supported by the host.
If either of them are supported, then a new tag "<power_management>" is
introduced in the XML under the <host> tag.
However in case the query to check for power management features succeeded,
but the host does not support any such feature, then the XML will contain
an empty <power_management/> tag. In the event that the PM query itself
failed, the XML will not contain any "power_management" tag.
To use this, new APIs could be implemented in libvirt to exploit power
management features such as S3/S4.
Eric Blake [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:27:24 +0000 (11:27 -0700)]
conf: don't modify cpu set string during parsing
None of the callers cared if str was updated to point to the next
byte after the parsed cpuset; simplifying this results in quite
a few code simplifications. Additionally, virCPUDefParseXML was
strdup()'ing a malloc()'d string; avoiding a memory copy resulted
in less code.
Roopa Prabhu [Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:34:32 +0000 (18:34 -0800)]
qemu: don't release network actual device twice
For direct attach devices, in qemuBuildCommandLine, we seem to be freeing
actual device on error path (with networkReleaseActualDevice). But the actual
device is not deleted.
qemuProcessStop eventually deletes the direct attach device and releases
actual device. But by the time qemuProcessStop is called qemuBuildCommandLine
has already freed actual device, leaving stray macvtap devices behind on error.
So the simplest fix is to remove the networkReleaseActualDevice in
qemuBuildCommandLine. This patch does just that.
Michal Privoznik [Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:01:31 +0000 (09:01 +0100)]
qemu: Copy console definition from serial
Now, when we support multiple consoles per domain,
the vm->def->console[0] can still remain an alias
for vm->def->serial[0]; However, we need to copy
it's source definition as well otherwise we'll regress
on virDomainOpenConsole.
Osier Yang [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:15:10 +0000 (19:15 +0800)]
storage: Skips backingStore of virtual snapshot lv
lvs outputs "[$lvname_vorigin]" for the virtual snapshot lv
(created with "--virtualsize"), and the original device pointed
by "$lvname_vorigin" is just for lvm internal use, one should
never use it.
Per lvm's nameing rules, "[" is not valid as part of the vg/lv name.
(man 8 lvm).
<quote>
VALID NAMES
The following characters are valid for VG and LV names: a-z A-Z 0-9 + _
. -
VG and LV names cannot begin with a hyphen. There are also various
reserved names that are used internally by lvm that can not be used as
LV or VG names. A VG cannot be called anything that exists in /dev/ at
the time of creation, nor can it be called '.' or '..'. A LV cannot be
called '.' '..' 'snapshot' or 'pvmove'. The LV name may also not con‐
tain the strings '_mlog' or '_mimage'
</quote>
So we can skip the set the lv's backingStore by checking if the name
begins with a "[".
Stefan Berger [Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:26:56 +0000 (07:26 -0500)]
Add support for VLAN filtering
This patch adds support for filtering of VLAN (802.1Q) traffic to the
parser and makes us of the ebtables support for VLAN filtering. This code
now enables the filtering of traffic in chains with prefix 'vlan'.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Jim Fehlig [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:54:38 +0000 (14:54 -0700)]
Don't copy sexpr node value that is an empty string
Xen4.1 initializes some unspecified sexpr config items to an empty
string, unlike previous Xen versions that would leave the item unset.
E.g. the kernel item for an HVM guest (non-direct kernel boot):
Xen4.0 and earlier
...
(image
(hvm
(kernel )
...
Xen4.1
...
(image
(hvm
(kernel '')
...
The empty string for kernel causes some grief in subsequent parsing
where existence of specified kernel is checked, e.g.
if (!def->os.kernel)
...
This patch solves the problem in sexpr_node_copy() by not copying
a node containing an empty string.
Eric Blake [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:21:54 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
tests: avoid xend ABRT crash report
I installed the xen development packages on my non-Xen F16 machine
in order to compile-test xen code and ensure we don't break things
on that front, but being a non-xen machine, /usr/sbin/xend is
obviously not running. Unfortunately, xen-4.1.2-1.fc16 has a bug
where merely trying to probe xend status on a non-xen kernel causes
xend to issue an ABRT crash report:
Even though libvirt (correctly) skips the test, the xend crash report
is unnecessary noise. Fix this by first filtering out non-xen
kernels even before attempting to probe xend. The test still runs
and passes on a RHEL 5 xen kernel after this patch.
Hu Tao [Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:44:12 +0000 (17:44 +0800)]
enable cgroup cpuset by default
This prepares for subsequent patches which introduce dependence
on cgroup cpuset. Enable cgroup cpuset by default so users don't
have to modify configuration file before encountering a cpuset
error.
Eric Blake [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:36:35 +0000 (10:36 -0700)]
build: fix accidental POTFILES.in regression
The original patch for commit 4789fb2 considered renaming a file,
then backed out the name change, but forgot to back out the POTFILES.in
change, resulting in 'make syntax-check' failure.
Stefan Berger [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:58:18 +0000 (11:58 -0500)]
Extend NWFilter parameter parser to cope with lists of values
This patch modifies the NWFilter parameter parser to support multiple
elements with the same name and to internally build a list of items.
An example of the XML looks like this:
Stefan Berger [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:58:18 +0000 (11:58 -0500)]
Create rules for each member of a list
This patch extends the NWFilter driver for Linux (ebiptables) to create
rules for each member of a previously introduced list. If for example
an attribute value (internally) looks like this:
IP = [10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.3]
then 3 rules will be generated for a rule accessing the variable 'IP',
one for each member of the list. The effect of this is that this now
allows for filtering for multiple values in one field. This can then be
used to support for filtering/allowing of multiple IP addresses per
interface.
An iterator is introduced that extracts each member of a list and
puts it into a hash table which then is passed to the function creating
a rule. For the above example the iterator would cause 3 loops.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The internal representation currently is so that a name is stored as a
string and the value as well. This patch now addresses the value part of it
and introduces a data structure for storing a value either as a simple
value or as an array for later support of lists.
This patch adjusts all code that was handling the values in hash tables
and makes it use the new data type.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Stefan Berger [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:58:18 +0000 (11:58 -0500)]
Documentation about chains' priorities, lists of elements etc.
This patch adds several aspects of documentation about the network filtering
system:
- chains, chains' priorities and chains' default priorities
- talks about lists of elements, i.e., a variable assigned multiple values
(part of already ACK-ed series)
- already mentions the vlan, stp and mac chains added later on
(https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-October/msg01238.html)
- mentions limitations of vlan filtering (when sent by VM) on Linux systems
Stefan Berger [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:58:18 +0000 (11:58 -0500)]
Interleave jumping into chains with filtering rules in 'root' table
The previous patch extends the priority of filtering rules into negative
numbers. We now use this possibility to interleave the jumping into
chains with filtering rules to for example create the 'root' table of
an interface with the following sequence of rules:
The '-p ARP -j ACCEPT' rule now appears between the jumps.
Since the 'arp' chain has been assigned priority -700 and the 'rarp'
chain -600, the above ordering can now be achieved with the following
rule:
Stefan Berger [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:58:18 +0000 (11:58 -0500)]
Extend rule priorities into negative numbers
So far rules' priorities have only been valid in the range [0,1000].
Now I am extending their priority into the range [-1000, 1000] for subsequently
being able to sort rules and the access of (jumps into) chains following
priorities.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Stefan Berger [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:58:18 +0000 (11:58 -0500)]
Enable chains with names having a known prefix
This patch enables chains that have a known prefix in their name.
Known prefixes are: 'ipv4', 'ipv6', 'arp', 'rarp'. All prefixes
are also protocols that can be evaluated on the ebtables level.
Following the prefix they will be automatically connected to an interface's
'root' chain and jumped into following the protocol they evaluate, i.e.,
a table 'arp-xyz' will be accessed from the root table using
The permitted values for priorities are [-1000, 1000].
By setting the priority of a chain the order in which it is accessed
from the interface root chain can be influenced.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Stefan Berger [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:58:17 +0000 (11:58 -0500)]
Use the actual names of chains in data structure
Use the name of the chain rather than its type index (enum).
This pushes the later enablement of chains with user-given names
into the XML parser. For now we still only allow those names that
are well known ('root', 'arp', 'rarp', 'ipv4' and 'ipv6').
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Stefan Berger [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:58:17 +0000 (11:58 -0500)]
Use scripting for cleaning and renaming of chains
Use scripts for the renaming and cleaning up of chains. This allows us to get
rid of some of the code that is only capable of renaming and removing chains
whose names are hardcoded.
A shell function 'collect_chains' is introduced that is given the name
of an ebtables chain and then recursively determines the names of all
chains that are accessed from this chain and its sub-chains using 'jumps'.
The resulting list of chain names is then used to delete all the found
chains by first flushing and then deleting them.
The same function is also used for renaming temporary filters to their final
names.
I tested this with the bash and dash as script interpreters.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Stefan Berger [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:58:17 +0000 (11:58 -0500)]
Make filter creation in root table more flexible
Use the previously introduced chain priorities to sort the chains for access
from an interface's 'root' table and have them created in the proper order.
This gets rid of a lot of code that was previously creating the chains in a
more hardcoded way.
To determine what protocol a filter is used for evaluation do prefix-
matching, i.e., the filter 'arp' is used to filter for the 'arp' protocol,
'ipv4' for the 'ipv4' protocol and 'arp-xyz' will also be used to filter
for the 'arp' protocol following the prefix 'arp' in its name.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Stefan Berger [Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:58:17 +0000 (11:58 -0500)]
Introduce an internal priority for chains
For better handling of the sorting of chains introduce an internally used
priority. Use a lookup table to store the priorities. For now their actual
values do not matter just that the values cause the chains to be properly
sorted through changes in the following patches. However, the values are
chosen as negative so that once they are sorted along with filtering rules
(whose priority may only be positive for now) they will always be instantiated
before them (lower values cause instantiation before higher values). This
is done to maintain backwards compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch adds support for a systemd init service for libvirtd
and libvirt-guests. The libvirtd.service is *not* written to use
socket activation, since we want libvirtd to start on boot so it
can do guest auto-start.
The libvirt-guests.service is pretty lame, just exec'ing the
original init script for now. Ideally we would factor out the
functionality, into some shared tool.
Instead of
./configure --with-init-script=redhat
You can now do
./configure --with-init-script=systemd
Or better still:
./configure --with-init-script=systemd+redhat
We can also now support install of the upstart init script
* configure.ac: Add systemd, and systemd+redhat options to
--with-init-script option
* daemon/Makefile.am: Install systemd services
* daemon/libvirtd.sysconf: Add note about unused env variable
with systemd
* daemon/libvirtd.service.in: libvirtd systemd service unit
* libvirt.spec.in: Add scripts to installing systemd services
and migrating from legacy init scripts
* tools/Makefile.am: Install systemd services
* tools/libvirt-guests.init.sh: Rename to tools/libvirt-guests.init.in
* tools/libvirt-guests.service.in: systemd service unit
Add support for interfaces with type=direct to LXC
Support creation of macvlan devices for LXC containers. Do not
allow setting of bandwidth controls or vport profiles due to the
complication that there is no host side visible device to work
with.
* src/lxc/lxc_driver.c: Support type=direct interfaces
Update virNetDevMacVLanCreateWithVPortProfile to allow creation
of plain macvlan devices, as well as macvtap devices. The former
is useful for LXC containers
* src/qemu/qemu_command.c: Explicitly request a macvtap device
* src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c, src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.h: Add
new flag to allow switching between macvlan and macvtap
creation
Refactor LXC network setup to allow future enhancements
The current lxcSetupInterfaces() method directly performs setup
of the bridge devices. Since it will shortly need to also create
macvlan devices, move the bridge related code into a separate
method
* src/lxc/lxc_driver.c: Split lxcSetupInterfaces() to create a
new lxcSetupInterfaceBridge()
Add missing 'const' annotations for internal domain conf helpers
The virDomainNetGetActualBridgeName and virDomainNetGetActualDirectDev
methods both return strings that point to data in the virDomainDefPtr
struct, and should therefore not be freed. The return values should
thus be 'const char *' not 'char *'.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c, src/conf/domain_conf.h: Mark const
* src/network/bridge_driver.c: Update to use a const char *
Move ifaceMacvtapLinkDump and ifaceGetNthParent functions
Move the ifaceMacvtapLinkDump and ifaceGetNthParent functions
into virnetdevvportprofile.c since they are specific to that
code. This avoids polluting the headers with the Linux specific
netlink data types
* src/util/interface.c, src/util/interface.h: Move
ifaceMacvtapLinkDump and ifaceGetNthParent functions and delete
remaining file
* src/util/virnetdevvportprofile.c: Add ifaceMacvtapLinkDump
and ifaceGetNthParent functions
* src/network/bridge_driver.c, src/nwfilter/nwfilter_gentech_driver.c,
src/nwfilter/nwfilter_learnipaddr.c, src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c:
Remove include of interface.h
Rename APIs for dealing with virtual/physical functions
Rename ifaceIsVirtualFunction to virNetDevIsVirtualFunction,
ifaceGetVirtualFunctionIndex to virNetDevGetVirtualFunctionIndex
and ifaceGetPhysicalFunction to virNetDevGetPhysicalFunction
* src/util/interface.c, src/util/interface.h: Rename APIs
* src/util/virnetdevvportprofile.c: Update for API rename
Rename the ifaceCheck method to virNetDevValidateConfig and change
so that it always raises an error and returns -1 on error.
* src/util/interface.c, src/util/interface.h: Rename ifaceCheck
to virNetDevValidateConfig
* src/nwfilter/nwfilter_gentech_driver.c,
src/nwfilter/nwfilter_learnipaddr.c: Update for API rename
Rename the ifaceGetIndex method to virNetDevGetIndex and
ifaceGetVlanID to virNetDevGetVLanID. Also change the error
reporting behaviour to always raise errors and return -1 on
failure
* util/interface.c, util/interface.h: Rename ifaceGetIndex
and ifaceGetVLAN
* nwfilter/nwfilter_gentech_driver.c, nwfilter/nwfilter_learnipaddr.c,
nwfilter/nwfilter_learnipaddr.c, util/virnetdevvportprofile.c: Update
for API renames and error handling changes
Rename ifaceMacvtapLinkAdd to virNetDevMacVLanCreate and
ifaceLinkDel to virNetDevMacVLanDelete. Strictly speaking
the latter isn't restricted to macvlan devices, but that's
the only use libvirt has for it.
Rename the macvtap.c file to virnetdevmacvlan.c to reflect its
functionality. Move the port profile association code out into
virnetdevvportprofile.c. Make the APIs available unconditionally
to callers
* src/util/macvtap.h: rename to src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.h,
* src/util/macvtap.c: rename to src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c
* src/util/virnetdevvportprofile.c, src/util/virnetdevvportprofile.h:
Pull in vport association code
* src/Makefile.am, src/conf/domain_conf.h, src/qemu/qemu_conf.c,
src/qemu/qemu_conf.h, src/qemu/qemu_driver.c: Update include
paths & remove conditional compilation
Eric Blake [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:19:20 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
snapshot: refuse to generate names for non-regular backing files
For whatever reason, the kernel allows you to create a regular
file named /dev/sdc.12345; although this file will disappear the
next time devtmpfs is remounted. If you let libvirt generate
the name of the external snapshot for a disk image originally
using the block device /dev/sdc, then the domain will be rendered
unbootable once the qcow2 file is lost on the next devtmpfs
remount. In this case, the user should have used 'virsh
snapshot-create --xmlfile' or 'virsh snapshot-create-as --diskspec'
to specify the name for the qcow2 file in a sane location, rather
than relying on libvirt generating a name that is most likely to
be wrong. We can help avoid naive mistakes by enforcing that
the user provide the external name for any backing file that is
not a regular file.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainSnapshotAlignDisks): Only
generate names if backing file exists as regular file.
Reported by MATSUDA Daiki.
Jim Fehlig [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:35:08 +0000 (11:35 -0700)]
Fix build with polkit0
I missed adding virNetServerGetDBusConn() to libvirtd_private.syms
in commit b8adfcc6, which didn't cause a problem in 0.9.6 but
results in this build error in 0.9.7
libvirtd-remote.o: In function `remoteDispatchAuthPolkit':
remote.c:(.text+0x188dd): undefined reference to `virNetServerGetDBusConn'
As noted by Daniel Berrange [1], the proper fix for the older
PolicyKit build issue is to add virNetServerGetDBusConn to
libvirt_private.syms. Revert unnecessary changes to
daemon/Makefile.am
Laine Stump [Mon, 7 Nov 2011 16:15:58 +0000 (11:15 -0500)]
virsh: add iface-bridge and iface-unbridge commands
One of the top questions by libvirt users is how to create a host
bridge device so that guests can be directly on the physical
network. There are several example documents that explain how to do
this manually, but following them often results in confusion and
failure. virt-manager does a good job of creating a bridge based on an
existing network device, but not everyone wants to use virt-manager.
This patch adds a new command, iface-bridge that makes it just about
as simple as possible to create a new bridge device based on an
existing ethernet/vlan/bond device (including associating IP
configuration with the bridge rather than the now-attached device),
and start that new bridge up ready for action, eg:
virsh iface-bridge eth0 br0
For symmetry's sake, it also adds a command to remove a device from a
bridge, restoring the IP config to the now-unattached device:
virsh iface-unbridge br0
(I had a short debate about whether to do "iface-unbridge eth0"
instead, but that would involve searching through all bridge devices
for the one that contained eth0, which seems like a bit too much
trouble).
NOTE: These two commands require that the netcf library be available
on the host. Hopefully this will provide some extra incentive for
people using suse, debian, ubuntu, and other similar systems to polish
up (and push downstream) the ports to those distros recently pushed to
the upstream netcf repo by Dan Berrange. Anyone interested in helping
with that effort in any way should join the netcf-devel mailing list
(subscription info at
https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/netcf-devel)
During creation of the bridge, it's possible to specify whether or not
the STP protocol should be started up on the bridge and, if so, how
many seconds the bridge should squelch traffic from newly added
devices while learning new topology (defaults are stp='on' and
delay='0', which seems to usually work best for bridges used in the
context of libvirt guests).
There is also an option to not immediately start the bridge (and a
similar option to not immediately start the un-attached device after
destroying the bridge. Default is to start the new device, because in
the case of iface-unbridge not starting is strongly discouraged as it
will leave the system with no network connectivity on that interface
(because it's necessary to destroy/undefine the bridge device before
the unattached device can be defined), and it seemed better to make
the option for iface-bridge behave consistently.
NOTE TO THOSE TRYING THESE COMMANDS FOR THE FIRST TIME: to guard
against any "unexpected" change to configuration, it is advisable to
issue an "virsh iface-begin" command before starting any interface
config changes, and "virsh iface-commit" only after you've verified
that everything is working as you expect. If something goes wrong,
you can always run "virsh iface-rollback" or reboot the system (which
should automatically do iface-rollback).
Aside from adding the code for these two functions, and the two
entries into the command table, the only other change to virsh.c was
to add the option name to vshCommandOptInterfaceBy(), because the
iface-unbridge command names its interface option as "bridge".
virsh.pod has also been updated with short descriptions of these two
new commands.
Don't return a fatal error if receiving unexpected stream data
Due to the asynchronous nature of streams, we might continue to
receive some stream packets from the server even after we have
shutdown the stream on the client side. These should be discarded
silently, rather than raising an error in the RPC layer.
* src/rpc/virnetclient.c: Discard stream data silently
Very occasionally the sequence of events from poll would result
in getting a HANGUP on its own, instead of a HANGUP+READABLE
at the same time. In the former case we would send back an error
event to the client, but never send the empty packet to indicate
EOF.
Allow non-blocking message sending on virNetClient
Add a new virNetClientSendNonBlock which returns 2 on
full send, 1 on partial send, 0 on no send, -1 on error
If a partial send occurs, then a subsequent call to any
of the virNetClientSend* APIs will finish any outstanding
I/O.
TODO: the virNetClientEvent event handler could be used
to speed up completion of partial sends if an event loop
is present.
* src/rpc/virnetsocket.h, src/rpc/virnetsocket.c: Add new
virNetSocketHasPendingData() API to test for cached
data pending send.
* src/rpc/virnetclient.c, src/rpc/virnetclient.h: Add new
virNetClientSendNonBlock() API to send non-blocking API
Stop multiplexing virNetClientSend for two different purposes,
instead add virNetClientSendWithReply and virNetClientSendNoReply
* src/rpc/virnetclient.c, src/rpc/virnetclient.h: Replace
virNetClientSend with virNetClientSendWithReply and
virNetClientSendNoReply
* src/rpc/virnetclientprogram.c, src/rpc/virnetclientstream.c:
Update for new API names