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Deepak C Shetty
d9e0d8204b Add new attribute wrpolicy to <driver> element
This introduces new attribute wrpolicy with only supported
value as immediate. This will be an optional
attribute with no defaults. This helps specify whether
to skip the host page cache.

When wrpolicy is specified, meaning when wrpolicy=immediate
a writeback is explicitly initiated for the dirty pages in
the host page cache as part of the guest file write operation.

Usage:
<filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
  <driver type='path' wrpolicy='immediate'/>
  <source dir='/export/to/guest'/>
  <target dir='mount_tag'/>
</filesystem>

Currently this only works with type='mount' for the QEMU/KVM driver.

Signed-off-by: Deepak C Shetty <deepakcs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-01-17 15:37:42 -07:00
Jiri Denemark
f7dd3a4e62 Add support for cpu mode attribute
The mode can be either of "custom" (default), "host-model",
"host-passthrough". The semantics of each mode is described in the
following examples:

- guest CPU is a default model with specified topology:
    <cpu>
      <topology sockets='1' cores='2' threads='1'/>
    </cpu>

- guest CPU matches selected model:
    <cpu mode='custom' match='exact'>
      <model>core2duo</model>
    </cpu>

- guest CPU should be a copy of host CPU as advertised by capabilities
  XML (this is a short cut for manually copying host CPU specification
  from capabilities to domain XML):
    <cpu mode='host-model'/>

  In case a hypervisor does not support the exact host model, libvirt
  automatically falls back to a closest supported CPU model and
  removes/adds features to match host. This behavior can be disabled by
    <cpu mode='host-model'>
      <model fallback='forbid'/>
    </cpu>

- the same as previous returned by virDomainGetXMLDesc with
  VIR_DOMAIN_XML_UPDATE_CPU flag:
    <cpu mode='host-model' match='exact'>
      <model fallback='allow'>Penryn</model>       --+
      <vendor>Intel</vendor>                         |
      <topology sockets='2' cores='4' threads='1'/>  + copied from
      <feature policy='require' name='dca'/>         | capabilities XML
      <feature policy='require' name='xtpr'/>        |
      ...                                          --+
    </cpu>

- guest CPU should be exactly the same as host CPU even in the aspects
  libvirt doesn't model (such domain cannot be migrated unless both
  hosts contain exactly the same CPUs):
    <cpu mode='host-passthrough'/>

- the same as previous returned by virDomainGetXMLDesc with
  VIR_DOMAIN_XML_UPDATE_CPU flag:
    <cpu mode='host-passthrough' match='minimal'>
      <model>Penryn</model>                        --+ copied from caps
      <vendor>Intel</vendor>                         | XML but doesn't
      <topology sockets='2' cores='4' threads='1'/>  | describe all
      <feature policy='require' name='dca'/>         | aspects of the
      <feature policy='require' name='xtpr'/>        | actual guest CPU
      ...                                          --+
    </cpu>
2012-01-17 11:39:23 +01:00
Jiri Denemark
a6f88cbd2d cpu: Optionally forbid fallback CPU models
In case a hypervisor doesn't support the exact CPU model requested by a
domain XML, we automatically fallback to a closest CPU model the
hypervisor supports (and make sure we add/remove any additional features
if needed). This patch adds 'fallback' attribute to model element, which
can be used to disable this automatic fallback.
2012-01-17 11:39:19 +01:00
Osier Yang
a5f8a01abb docs: Add missed RNG schema for interface
We support <interface> of type "mcast", "server", and "client",
but the RNG schema for them are missed. Attribute "address" is
optional for "server" type. And these 3 types support
<mac address='MAC'/>, too.
2012-01-17 17:09:47 +08:00
Osier Yang
487bdbd8e0 docs: Expose alias tag in domain RNG schema
Though <alias> is ignored when defining a domain, it can cause
failure if one validates (e.g. virt-xml-validate) the XML dumped
from a running domain. This patch expose it in domain RNG schema
for all the devices which support it.
2012-01-16 19:53:54 +08:00
Osier Yang
4447d2cbdf docs: Add readonly to filesystem RNG schema
"<readonly/>" is supported by filesystem XML, and also documented.
2012-01-16 19:53:44 +08:00
Michael Ellerman
8611d9c3d8 Make drive unit attribute optional in the XML schema
The "unit" attribute of a drive address is optional in the code, so should
also be in the XML schema.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
2012-01-13 15:12:06 -07:00
Paolo Bonzini
c9abfadf37 qemu: add virtio-scsi controller model
Adding a new model for virtio-scsi roughly follows the same scheme
as the previous patch.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-01-13 14:54:48 -07:00
Paolo Bonzini
7b345b69f2 qemu: add ibmvscsi controller model
KVM will be able to use a PCI SCSI controller even on POWER.  Let
the user specify the vSCSI controller by other means than a default.

After this patch, the QEMU driver will actually look at the model
and reject anything but auto, lsilogic and ibmvscsi.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-01-13 14:13:30 -07:00
Osier Yang
5edfcaae6f qemu: Support copy on read for disk
The new introduced optional attribute "copy_on_read</code> controls
whether to copy read backing file into the image file. The value can
be either "on" or "off". Copy-on-read avoids accessing the same backing
file sectors repeatedly and is useful when the backing file is over a
slow network. By default copy-on-read is off.
2012-01-13 10:08:15 +08:00
Shradha Shah
b01b53de3f Adding the element pf to network xml.
This element will help the user to just specify the SR-IOV physical
function in order to access all the Virtual functions attached to it.
2012-01-11 13:10:21 -07:00
Stefan Berger
a20cc3cc4f Add documentation new ways to access members of variables
This patch adds documentation about the new 'ways' that users can
access the contents of variables in filters:

- access via index: $TEST[2]
- access via iterators $TEST[@1]
2012-01-11 06:42:37 -05:00
Stefan Berger
80e9a5cd4c Introduce possibility to have an iterator per variable
This patch introduces the capability to use a different iterator per
variable.

The currently supported notation of variables in a filtering rule like

  <rule action='accept' direction='out'>
     <tcp  srcipaddr='$A' srcportstart='$B'/>
  </rule>

processes the two lists 'A' and 'B' in parallel. This means that A and B
must have the same number of 'N' elements and that 'N' rules will be 
instantiated (assuming all tuples from A and B are unique).

In this patch we now introduce the assignment of variables to different
iterators. Therefore a rule like

  <rule action='accept' direction='out'>
     <tcp  srcipaddr='$A[@1]' srcportstart='$B[@2]'/>
  </rule>

will now create every combination of elements in A with elements in B since
A has been assigned to an iterator with Id '1' and B has been assigned to an
iterator with Id '2', thus processing their value independently.

The first rule has an equivalent notation of

  <rule action='accept' direction='out'>
     <tcp  srcipaddr='$A[@0]' srcportstart='$B[@0]'/>
  </rule>
2012-01-11 06:42:37 -05:00
Michal Privoznik
cb0af106de Docs: Document Android application using libvirt
This is actually a patch for VM Manager for Android.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2011-November/msg00076.html
2012-01-10 09:47:47 +01:00
Laine Stump
177db08775 qemu: add new disk device='lun' for bus='virtio' & type='block'
In the past, generic SCSI commands issued from a guest to a virtio
disk were always passed through to the underlying disk by qemu, and
the kernel would also pass them on.

As a result of CVE-2011-4127 (see:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/536), qemu now honors its
scsi=on|off device option for virtio-blk-pci (which enables/disables
passthrough of generic SCSI commands), and the kernel will only allow
the commands for physical devices (not for partitions or logical
volumes). The default behavior of qemu is still to allow sending
generic SCSI commands to physical disks that are presented to a guest
as virtio-blk-pci devices, but libvirt prefers to disable those
commands in the standard virtio block devices, enabling it only when
specifically requested (hopefully indicating that the requester
understands what they're asking for). For this purpose, a new libvirt
disk device type (device='lun') has been created.

device='lun' is identical to the default device='disk', except that:

1) It is only allowed if bus='virtio', type='block', and the qemu
   version is "new enough" to support it ("new enough" == qemu 0.11 or
   better), otherwise the domain will fail to start and a
   CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED error will be logged).

2) The option "scsi=on" will be added to the -device arg to allow
   SG_IO commands (if device !='lun', "scsi=off" will be added to the
   -device arg so that SG_IO commands are specifically forbidden).

Guests which continue to use disk device='disk' (the default) will no
longer be able to use SG_IO commands on the disk; those that have
their disk device changed to device='lun' will still be able to use SG_IO
commands.

*docs/formatdomain.html.in - document the new device attribute value.
*docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng - allow it in the RNG
*tests/* - update the args of several existing tests to add scsi=off, and
 add one new test that will test scsi=on.
*src/conf/domain_conf.c - update domain XML parser and formatter

*src/qemu/qemu_(command|driver|hotplug).c - treat
 VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_DEVICE_LUN *almost* identically to
 VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_DEVICE_DISK, except as indicated above.

Note that no support for this new device value was added to any
hypervisor drivers other than qemu, because it's unclear what it might
mean (if anything) to those drivers.
2012-01-09 10:55:53 -05:00
Daniel Veillard
2f667b5697 Release of libvirt-0.9.9
* configure.ac docs/news.html.in libvirt.spec.in: update for the release
* po/*.po*: updated localizations from transifex and regenerated
2012-01-07 12:18:06 +08:00
Jiri Denemark
88ed9ec001 schemas: Allow '.' in CPU feature name
We already support CPU features with '.' in their name (e.g., sse4.1) so
we should not forbid that in the schema.
2012-01-04 13:29:43 +01:00
Yuri Chornoivan
524ba58bb9 Fix typos in messages.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770954
2012-01-03 20:30:33 -07:00
Michal Novotny
973af2362c Implement DNS SRV record into the bridge driver
Hi,
this is the fifth version of my SRV record for DNSMasq patch rebased
for the current codebase to the bridge driver and libvirt XML file to
include support for the SRV records in the DNS. The syntax is based on
DNSMasq man page and tests for both xml2xml and xml2argv were added as
well. There are some things written a better way in comparison with
version 4, mainly there's no hack in tests/networkxml2argvtest.c and
also the xPath context is changed to use a simpler query using the
virXPathInt() function relative to the current node.

Also, the patch is also fixing the networkxml2argv test to pass both
checks, i.e. both unit tests and also syntax check.

Please review,
Michal

Signed-off-by: Michal Novotny <minovotn@redhat.com>
2012-01-02 23:05:55 +08:00
Eric Blake
bc1b27e07e docs: re-fix stray /
Commit 6cb4acc reintroduced the bug fixed in commit d145fe3.

* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsDisks): Fix again.
2011-12-31 06:42:01 -07:00
Eric Blake
6cb4acce8b seclabel: extend XML to allow per-disk label overrides
When doing security relabeling, there are cases where a per-file
override might be appropriate.  For example, with a static label
and relabeling, it might be appropriate to skip relabeling on a
particular disk, where the backing file lives on NFS that lacks
the ability to track labeling.  Or with dynamic labeling, it might
be appropriate to use a custom (non-dynamic) label for a disk
specifically intended to be shared across domains.

The new XML resembles the top-level <seclabel>, but with fewer
options (basically relabel='no', or <label>text</label>):

<domain ...>
  ...
  <devices>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <source file='/path/to/image1'>
        <seclabel relabel='no'/> <!-- override for just this disk -->
      </source>
      ...
    </disk>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <source file='/path/to/image1'>
        <seclabel relabel='yes'> <!-- override for just this disk -->
          <label>system_u:object_r:shared_content_t:s0</label>
        </seclabel>
      </source>
      ...
    </disk>
    ...
  </devices>
  <seclabel type='dynamic' model='selinux'>
    <baselabel>text</baselabel> <!-- used for all devices without override -->
  </seclabel>
</domain>

This patch only introduces the XML and documentation; future patches
will actually parse and make use of it.  The intent is that we can
further extend things as needed, adding a per-device <seclabel> in
more places (such as the source of a console device), and possibly
allowing a <baselabel> instead of <label> for labeling where we want
to reuse the cNNN,cNNN pair of a dynamically labeled domain but a
different base label.

First suggested by Daniel P. Berrange here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-December/msg00258.html

* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (devSeclabel): New define.
(disk): Use it.
* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsDisks, seclabel): Document
the new XML.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-seclabel-dynamic-override.xml:
New test, to validate RNG.
2011-12-30 10:57:58 +08:00
Eric Blake
116d6af979 schema: rewrite seclabel rng to match code
The RNG for <seclabel> was too strict - if it was present, then it
had to have sub-elements, even if those didn't make sense for the
given attributes.  Also, we didn't have any tests of <seclabel>
parsing or XML output.

In this patch, I added more parsing tests than output tests (since
the output populates and/or reorders fields not present in certain
inputs).  Making the RNG reliable is a precursor to using <seclabel>
variants in more places in the XML in later patches.

See also:
http://berrange.com/posts/2011/09/29/two-small-improvements-to-svirt-guest-configuration-flexibility-with-kvmlibvirt/

* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng (seclabel): Tighten rules.
* tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c (mymain): New tests.
* tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c (mymain): Likewise.
* tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-seclabel-*.*: New files.
2011-12-30 10:38:37 +08:00
Eric Blake
d145fe3bb3 docs: remove stray /
Commit e5a84d74 added a new attribute in the wrong location;
commit c8b9fa74 fixed the missing / at the end but not the extra
/ in the middle.

* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsDisks): Fix another typo.
2011-12-23 12:04:19 -07:00
Eric Blake
c8b9fa7434 docs: fix missing / in xml examples
* docs/formatdomain.html.in: Fix typos in examples.
2011-12-22 13:03:50 -07:00
Osier Yang
a1a83c5874 qemu: Support readonly filesystem passthrough
Upstream QEMU starts to support it from commit 2c74c2cb.
2011-12-22 12:29:58 +08:00
Bharata B Rao
4ba56a9410 Add New address type spapr-vio to domain.rng
Original patch by Bharata. Updated to use {1,16} in spaprvioReg based
on example from Eric Blake.

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
2011-12-20 16:01:25 -07:00
Eric Blake
60f99824d4 docs: document <qemu:commandline> xml
Even though we technically don't support <qemu:commandline> (as in,
if you mis-use things, you get to keep the pieces), we should at
least document how to use it.

[See also http://berrange.com/posts/2011/12/19/using-command-line-arg-monitor-command-passthrough-with-libvirt-and-kvm/]

* docs/drvqemu.html.in (qemucommand): New section.
2011-12-19 14:19:12 -07:00
Christophe Fergeau
6f75a28d9b Fix typo in storage pool documentation
Remove 2 words that shouldn't be here.
2011-12-19 16:33:42 +01:00
Eric Blake
fe7fc1617c docs: document <address> elements in one place
Improve the documentation of what forms a valid <address> element,
since these elements appear in numerous devices.

* docs/formatdomain.html.in (elementsAddress): New section.
(elementsControllers, elementsUSB, elementsNICS, elementsInput)
(elementsHub, elementsCharChannel, elementsSound): Refer to it.
2011-12-12 12:03:32 -07:00
Eric Blake
dad3c2090d network: allow '-' in model name
In QEMU PPC64 we have a network device called "spapr-vlan". We can specify
this using the existing syntax for network devices, however libvirt
currently rejects "spapr-vlan" in virDomainNetDefParseXML() because of
the "-". Fix the code to accept "-".

* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainNetDefParseXML): Allow '-' in
model name, and be more efficient.
* docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng: Limit valid model names to match code.
Based on a patch by Michael Ellerman.
2011-12-09 13:02:45 -07:00
Bharata B Rao
608786fc52 Add ppc64 specific definitions to domain.rng
ppc64 as new arch type and pseries as new machine type are
added under <os> ...  </os>.

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-08 08:39:26 -05:00
Daniel Veillard
7c6b0653f3 Release of libvirt-0.9.8
* configure.ac docs/news.html.in libvirt.spec.in: updated for the release
* po/*.po*: fetched localization update and regenerated
2011-12-08 15:13:50 +08:00
Christophe Fergeau
8d16201fe0 Add documentation for <disk><source type="dir"> 2011-12-07 10:18:58 -07:00
Osier Yang
cc17f09246 npiv: Expose fabric_name outside
This patch is to expose the fabric_name of fc_host class, which
might be useful for users who wants to known which fabric the
(v)HBA connects to.

The patch also adds the missed capabilities' XML schema of scsi_host,
(of course, with fabric_wwn added), and update the documents
(docs/formatnode.html.in)
2011-12-07 18:42:08 +08:00
Lei Li
6df7ccb10e Support block I/O throttle in XML
Enable block I/O throttle for per-disk in XML, as the first
per-disk IO tuning parameter.

Signed-off-by: Lei Li <lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2011-11-30 11:36:09 -07:00
Daniel P. Berrange
f1f28611f1 Remove powerMgmt_valid field from capabilities struct
If we ensure that virNodeSuspendGetTargetMask always resets
*bitmask to zero upon failure, there is no need for the
powerMgmt_valid field.

* src/util/virnodesuspend.c: Ensure *bitmask is zero upon
  failure
* src/conf/capabilities.c, src/conf/capabilities.h: Remove
  powerMgmt_valid field
* src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c: Remove powerMgmt_valid
2011-11-30 10:12:30 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrange
ae5e55289d Fix capabilities XML to use generic terms for suspend targets
The capabilities XML uses the x86 specific terms 'S3', 'S4'
and 'Hybrid-Syspend'. Switch it to use the same terminology
as the API constants and virsh options, eg 'suspend_mem'
'suspend_disk' and 'suspend_hybrid'

* docs/formatcaps.html.in, docs/schemas/capability.rng,
  src/conf/capabilities.c: Rename suspend constants
2011-11-30 10:12:29 +00:00
Hu Tao
6ac81c8ec8 blkiotune: add interface for blkiotune.device_weight
This adds per-device weights to <blkiotune>.  Note that the
cgroups implementation only supports weights per block device,
and not per-file within the device; hence this option must be
global to the domain definition rather than tied to individual
<devices>/<disk> entries:

<domain ...>
  <blkiotune>
    <device>
      <path>/path/to/block</path>
      <weight>1000</weight>
    </device>
  </blkiotune>
..

This patch also adds a parameter --device-weights to virsh command
blkiotune for setting/getting blkiotune.weight_device for any
hypervisor that supports it.  All <device> entries under
<blkiotune> are concatenated into a single string attribute under
virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters, named "device_weight".

Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2011-11-29 12:26:21 -07:00
Srivatsa S. Bhat
302743f177 Add 'Hybrid-Suspend' power management discovery for the host
Some systems support a feature known as 'Hybrid-Suspend', apart from the
usual system-wide sleep states such as Suspend-to-RAM (S3) or Suspend-to-Disk
(S4). Add the functionality to discover this power management feature and
export it in the capabilities XML under the <power_management> tag.
2011-11-29 17:29:16 +08:00
Lorin Hochstein
8078a90a24 conf: make virt-xml-validate work with vbox domains
virt-xml-validate fails when run on a domain XML file of type 'vbox'.

For failing test case, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757097

This patch updates the XML schema to accept all valid hypervisor
types, as well as dropping hypervisor types that are not in use
by the current code base.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
2011-11-28 09:16:07 -07:00
Stefan Berger
d64208888d Add documentation for STP filtering support
Add documentation for the STP filtering support. Describe the XML attributes
that are supported.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-11-22 15:12:03 -05:00
Stefan Berger
ba3bf00acf 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>
2011-11-22 15:12:03 -05:00
Stefan Berger
af37ce3dc7 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>
2011-11-22 15:12:03 -05:00
Eric Blake
aa69441cba docs: fix grammar of capabilities
* docs/formatcaps.html.in: Avoid run-on sentence, wrap lines.
2011-11-22 10:30:42 -07:00
Srivatsa S. Bhat
e352b16400 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.
2011-11-22 11:31:22 +08:00
Stefan Berger
83ac18937e Add documentation for VLAN filtering support
Add documentation for the VLAN filtering support. Describe the XML attributes
that are supported.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-11-19 07:26:56 -05:00
Stefan Berger
8047c4bffa 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>
2011-11-19 07:26:56 -05:00
Stefan Berger
8951328619 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:

        <parameter name='TEST' value='10.1.2.3'/>
        <parameter name='TEST' value='10.2.3.4'/>
        <parameter name='TEST' value='10.1.1.1'/>

The list of values is then stored in the newly introduced data type
virNWFilterVarValue.

The XML formatter is also adapted to print out all items in alphabetical
order sorted by 'name'.

This patch also fixes a bug in the XML schema on the way.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-11-18 11:58:18 -05:00
Stefan Berger
1d8a00cd22 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
2011-11-18 11:58:18 -05:00
Stefan Berger
ea7c73a76f 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

ebtables -t nat -A <iface root table> -p arp -j I-<ifname>-arp-xyz

thus generating a 'root' chain like this one here:

Bridge chain: libvirt-O-vnet0, entries: 5, policy: ACCEPT
-p IPv4 -j O-vnet0-ipv4
-p ARP -j O-vnet0-arp
-p 0x8035 -j O-vnet0-rarp
-p ARP -j O-vnet0-arp-xyz
-j DROP 

where the chain 'arp-xyz' is accessed for filtering of ARP packets.


Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-11-18 11:58:18 -05:00