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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ján Tomko
daf51be5f1 Split qemuDomainChrInsert into two parts
Do the allocation first, then add the actual device.
The second part should never fail. This is good
for live hotplug where we don't want to remove the device
on OOM after the monitor command succeeded.

The only change in behavior is that on failure, the
vmdef->consoles array is freed, not just the first console.
2015-01-27 18:30:15 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
0a8addc103 lxc: only write XML once for lxc controller
Currently when launching the LXC controller we first write out
the plain, inactive XML configuration, then launch the controller,
then replace the file with the live status XML configuration.
By good fortune this hasn't caused any problems other than some
misleading error messages during failure scenarios.

This simplifies the code so it only writes out the XML once and
always writes the live status XML. To do this we need to handshake
with the child process, to make execution pause just before exec()
so we can write the XML status with the child PID present.
2015-01-27 13:57:02 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrange
7b1ba9566b Remove use of nwfilterPrivateData from nwfilter driver
The nwfilter driver can rely on its global state instead
of the connect private data.
2015-01-27 12:02:03 +00:00
Peter Krempa
f18f1183e5 conf: Fix comment mentioning actual type of @multi member of virDevicePCIAddress
After refactor to use the virTristateSwitch enum the comment in the
struct was not adjusted.
2015-01-23 13:18:03 +01:00
Erik Skultety
852cea52ec conf: virDomainDefMaybeAddController tweak return code
Previously the function returned either -1 in case of an error or 0 on
success. However, we should also distinguish between a case we
successfully added a controller and a case there wasn't a need to add any
controller
2015-01-23 11:03:45 +01:00
Josh Stone
298fa4858c network: Let domains be restricted to local DNS
This adds a new "localOnly" attribute on the domain element of the
network xml.  With this set to "yes", DNS requests under that domain
will only be resolved by libvirt's dnsmasq, never forwarded upstream.

This was how it worked before commit f69a6b987d, and I found that
functionality useful.  For example, I have my host's NetworkManager
dnsmasq configured to forward that domain to libvirt's dnsmasq, so I can
easily resolve guest names from outside.  But if libvirt's dnsmasq
doesn't know a name and forwards it to the host, I'd get an endless
forwarding loop.  Now I can set localOnly="yes" to prevent the loop.

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
2015-01-20 01:07:18 -05:00
Ján Tomko
bd1bbd4710 Simplify condition for formatting CPU features
Commit adff345 added support for features to MODE_HOSTPASSTHROUGH
as well. Since we support all modes now, the condition can be
eliminated.
2015-01-19 10:11:15 +01:00
Dmitry Guryanov
c8a6f844c3 add ploop fs driver type
Ploop is a pseudo device which makeit possible to access
to an image in a file as a block device. Like loop devices,
but with additional features, like snapshots, write tracker
and without double-caching.

It used in PCS for containers and in OpenVZ. You can manage
ploop devices and images with ploop utility
(http://git.openvz.org/?p=ploop).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Guryanov <dguryanov@parallels.com>
2015-01-16 14:07:46 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
199390117c docs, schema, conf: Add support for PMU feature
Just a new feature that can be turned on/off.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178853

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-01-16 13:43:46 +01:00
John Ferlan
ec010a55e7 network: Resolve Coverity FORWARD_NULL
Commit id 'ca481a6f' added virNetworkRouteDefFree which may be called
in an error path from lxcAddNetworkRouteDefinition with 'route = NULL'.
So just add the (!def) at the top to resolve.
2015-01-16 06:40:15 -05:00
John Ferlan
c6adccae3a domain_conf: Check errors from virSocketAddrFormat
Commit id 'aa2cc721' added calls to virSocketAddrFormat but did not
check for a NULL (error) return which could lead to bad output
in the XML file.  Need to check for NULL return and cause failure.

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
2015-01-16 10:14:03 +01:00
John Ferlan
57e681e529 domain_conf: Resolve Coverity RESOURCE_LEAK
Commit id 'aa2cc721' added call to virSocketAddrFormat
and did not VIR_FREE() the returned memory.

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
2015-01-16 10:14:03 +01:00
Cédric Bosdonnat
a117652917 Use the network route definitions for domains 2015-01-16 10:14:03 +01:00
Cédric Bosdonnat
ca481a6f8f Move code related to network routes to networkcommon_conf.[ch]
Moving code for parsing and formatting network routes to
networkcommon_conf helps reusing those routes for domains. The route
definition has been hidden to help reducing the number of unnecessary
checks in the format function.
2015-01-16 10:14:03 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
7d3ae359db virNetworkDefUpdateIPDHCPHost: Don't crash when updating network
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182486

When updating a network and adding new ip-dhcp-host entry, the deamon
may crash. The problem is, we iterate over existing <host/> entries
trying to compare MAC addresses to see if there's already an existing
rule. However, not all entries are required to have MAC address. For
instance, the following is perfectly valid entry:

<host id='00:04:58:fd:e4:15:1b:09:4c:0e:09:af:e4:d3:8c:b8:ca:1e'
name='redhatipv6.redhat.com' ip='2001:db8:ca2:2::119'/>

When the checking loop iterates over this, the entry's MAC address is
accessed directly. Well, the fix is obvious - check if the address is
defined before trying to compare it.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-01-16 09:57:05 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
dd69a14f90 Add support for schema validation when passing in XML
The virDomainDefineXMLFlags and virDomainCreateXML APIs both
gain new flags allowing them to be told to validate XML.
This updates all the drivers to turn on validation in the
XML parser when the flags are set
2015-01-15 16:40:27 +00:00
Michal Privoznik
a605025c21 conf: Increase virNetDevBandwidthParse intelligence
There's this function virNetDevBandwidthParse which parses the
bandwidth XML snippet. But it's not clever much. For the
following XML it allocates the virNetDevBandwidth structure even
though it's completely empty:

    <bandwidth>
    </bandwidth>

Later in the code there are some places where we check if
bandwidth was set or not. And since we obtained pointer from the
parsing function we think that it is when in fact it isn't.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2015-01-13 18:24:15 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
0ecd685109 Give virDomainDef parser & formatter their own flags
The virDomainDefParse* and virDomainDefFormat* methods both
accept the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_* flags defined in the public API,
along with a set of other VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INTERNAL_* flags
defined in domain_conf.c.

This is seriously confusing & error prone for a number of
reasons:

 - VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE, VIR_DOMAIN_XML_MIGRATABLE and
   VIR_DOMAIN_XML_UPDATE_CPU are only relevant for the
   formatting operation
 - Some of the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INTERNAL_* flags only apply
   to parse or to format, but not both.

This patch cleanly separates out the flags. There are two
distint VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_* and VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_FORMAT_*
flags that are used by the corresponding methods. The
VIR_DOMAIN_XML_* flags received via public API calls must
be converted to the VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_FORMAT_* flags where
needed.

The various calls to virDomainDefParse which hardcoded the
use of the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INACTIVE flag change to use the
VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_INACTIVE flag.
2015-01-13 16:26:12 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrange
e34473c1da Decouple CPU XML formatting from domain XML public API flags
The virCPUDefFormat* methods were relying on the VIR_DOMAIN_XML_*
flag definitions. It is not desirable for low level internal
functions to be coupled to flags for the public API, since they
may need to be called from several different contexts where the
flags would not be appropriate.
2015-01-13 16:19:56 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrange
4d6ed1bf0b Don't use VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE when parsing XML
The VIR_DOMAIN_XML_SECURE flag only has effect on the formatting
of XML so should not be passed to virDomainDefParseNode
2015-01-13 10:43:07 +00:00
Luyao Huang
fba7173f72 conf: fix crash when hotplug a channel chr device with no target
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181408

When we try to hotplug a channel chr device with no target, we
will get success (which should fail) in virDomainChrDefParseXML,
because we use goto cleanup this place and return an incomplete
definition (with no target). In qemuDomainAttachChrDevice,
we add it to the domain definition, but fail to remove it from
there when chardev-add fails, because virDomainChrRemove
matches chardevices according to the target name.
The device definition is then freed in qemuDomainAttachDeviceFlags,
leaving a stale pointer in the domain definition.

Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2015-01-13 09:56:56 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
adff345e1e qemu: Allow enabling/disabling features with host-passthrough
QEMU supports feature specification with -cpu host and we just skip
using that.  Since QEMU developers themselves would like to use this
feature, this patch modifies the code to work.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178850

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2015-01-13 08:51:01 +01:00
Luyao Huang
97fac17c77 conf: Correctly format controller's driver
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179684

The way that we currently generate the <driver/> for <controller/> is
just madness:

    <controller type='scsi' index='0' model='virtio-scsi'>
      <driver queues='12'/>
      <driver cmd_per_lun='123'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>

It's obvious that we should be aiming at the following:

    <controller type='scsi' index='0' model='virtio-scsi'>
      <driver queues='12' cmd_per_lun='123'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
    </controller>

Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
2015-01-09 16:01:55 +01:00
Stefan Berger
3a3b3691d1 nwfilter: Add support for icmpv6 filtering
Make use of the ebtables functionality to be able to filter certain
parameters of icmpv6 packets. Extend the XML parser for icmpv6 types,
type ranges, codes, and code ranges. Extend the nwfilter documentation,
schema, and test cases.

Being able to filter icmpv6 types and codes helps extending the DHCP
snooper for IPv6 and filtering at least some parameters of IPv6's NDP
(Neighbor Discovery Protocol) packets. However, the filtering will not
be as good as the filtering of ARP packets since we cannot
check on IP addresses in the payload of the NDP packets.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-07 11:41:49 -05:00
Luyao Huang
db19a4a3c6 conf: Don't format actual network definition in migratable XML
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177194

When migrate a vm, we will generate a xml via qemuDomainDefFormatLive and
pass this xml to target libvirtd. Libvirt will use the current network
state in def->data.network.actual to generate the xml, this will make
migrate failed when we set a network type guest interface use a macvtap
network as a source in a vm then migrate vm to another host(which has the
different macvtap network settings: different interface name, bridge name...)

Add a flag check in virDomainNetDefFormat, if we set a VIR_DOMAIN_XML_MIGRATABLE
flag when call virDomainNetDefFormat, we won't get the current vm interface
state.

Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
2015-01-07 13:11:02 +01:00
Cédric Bosdonnat
c9a641f1e5 Domain network devices can now have a <route> element
Network interfaces devices and host devices with net capabilities can
now have IPv4 and/or an IPv6 routes configured.
2015-01-05 20:24:17 +01:00
Cédric Bosdonnat
2811cc611e Allow network capabilities hostdev to configure IP addresses 2015-01-05 20:24:17 +01:00
Cédric Bosdonnat
aa2cc72100 Domain conf: allow more than one IP address for net devices
Add the possibility to have more than one IP address configured for a
domain network interface. IP addresses can also have a prefix to define
the corresponding netmask.
2015-01-05 20:24:04 +01:00
Cédric Bosdonnat
b11a75dcb4 Forgot to cleanup ifname_guest* in domain network def parsing 2015-01-05 20:24:03 +01:00
Michal Privoznik
2360fe5d24 capabilities: Format <domain/> properly
The <domain/> element under /capabilities/guest/arch/ can have no
child elements. If that's the case we format:

        <domain type='xen'>
        </domain>

instead of simpler:

        <domain type='xen'/>

This commit fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2014-12-24 18:01:44 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
57c008f860 conf: Fix invalid condition when parsing storage owner
In commit d2632d60 we agreed taht we want the parsed uid to properly
overflow but only to -1, however the value was read into long and then
wrapped into uid_t.  That meaned it failed on 32-bit systems.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2014-12-16 19:51:34 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
feb1a4d792 conf: Rework virDomainObjListFindByUUID to allow more concurrent APIs
Currently, when there is an API that's blocking with locked domain and
second API that's waiting in virDomainObjListFindByUUID() for the domain
lock (with the domain list locked) no other API can be executed on any
domain on the whole hypervisor because all would wait for the domain
list to be locked.  This patch adds new optional approach to this in
which the domain is only ref'd (reference counter is incremented)
instead of being locked and is locked *after* the list itself is
unlocked.  We might consider only ref'ing the domain in the future and
leaving locking on particular APIs, but that's no tonight's fairy tale.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2014-12-16 15:50:49 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
d2632d60aa storage: unify permission formatting
Volume and pool formatting functions took different approaches to
unspecified uids/gids.  When unknown, it is always parsed as -1, but one
of the functions formatted it as unsigned int (wrong) and one as
int (better).  Due to that, our two of our XML files from tests cannot
be parsed on 32-bit machines.

RNG schema needs to be modified as well, but because both
storagepool.rng and storagevol.rng need same schema for permission
element, save some space by moving it to storagecommon.rng.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2014-12-16 15:47:56 +01:00
Wang Rui
9603bce7b1 qemu: make persistent update of graphics device supported
We can change vnc password by using virDomainUpdateDeviceFlags API with
live flag. But it can't be changed with config flag. Error is reported as
below.

error: Operation not supported: persistent update of device 'graphics' is not supported

This patch supports the graphics arguments changed with config flag.

Signed-off-by: Wang Rui <moon.wangrui@huawei.com>
2014-12-15 15:45:24 +01:00
Luyao Huang
046d82d72f conf: fix virDomainLeaseIndex logic
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1174096

When both parameter have lockspaces present, virDomainLeaseIndex
always returns -1 even there is a lease the same with the one we
check. This is due to broken logic in 'if-else' statement.

Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2014-12-15 14:19:38 +01:00
Luyao Huang
5fc1c51743 conf: Fix libvirtd crash matching hostdev XML
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1174053

Introduced by commit id '17bddc46f' - fix a libvirtd crash when
matching a network iscsi hostdev with a host iscsi hostdev.

When we use attach-device to coldplug a network iscsi hostdev,
libvirt will check if there is already a device in XML. But if
the 'b' is a host iscsi hostdev and 'a' is a network iscsi hostdev,
then libvirtd will crash in virDomainHostdevMatchSubsysSCSIiSCSI
because 'b' doesn't have a hostname.

Add a check in virDomainHostdevMatchSubsys, if the a's protocol
and b's protocol is not the same.

Following is the backtrace:

0  0x00007f850d6bc307 in virDomainHostdevMatchSubsysSCSIiSCSI at conf/domain_conf.c:10889
1  virDomainHostdevMatchSubsys at conf/domain_conf.c:10911
2  virDomainHostdevMatch at conf/domain_conf.c:10973
3  virDomainHostdevFind at conf/domain_conf.c:10998
4  0x00007f84f6a10560 in qemuDomainAttachDeviceConfig at qemu/qemu_driver.c:7223
5  qemuDomainAttachDeviceFlags at qemu/qemu_driver.c:7554

Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
2014-12-15 07:09:07 -05:00
Erik Skultety
d85dcae4b2 conf: move the check for secondary consoles of targetType serial
For historical reasons, only the first <console> element might be of targetType
serial, but we checked for other consoles of targetType serial in our post-parse
callback if and only if we knew the first console was serial, otherwise
the check was skipped.
This patch moves the check one level up, so first
the check for secondary console of type serial is performed and then the
rest of operations continue unchanged.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170092
2014-12-15 09:40:01 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
c7d1c139ca qemu: avoid rare race when undefining domain
When one domain is being undefined and at the same time started, for
example, there is a possibility of a rare problem occuring.

 - Thread 1 does virDomainUndefine(), has the lock, checks that the
   domain is active and because it's not, calls
   virDomainObjListRemove().

 - Thread 2 does virDomainCreate() and tries to lock the domain.

 - Thread 1 needs to lock domain list in order to remove the domain from
   it, but must unlock domain first (proper order is to lock domain list
   first and the domain itself second).

 - Thread 2 grabs the lock, starts the domain and releases the lock.

 - Thread 1 grabs the lock and removes the domain from list.

With this patch:

 - The undefining domain gets marked as "to undefine" before it is
    unlocked.

 - If domain is found in any of the search APIs, it's returned only if
   it is not marked as "to undefine".  The check is done while the
   domain is locked.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1150505

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2014-12-13 10:01:31 +01:00
Luyao Huang
f6f4bd10b2 conf: Ignore device address for model=none usb controller and memballon
It make no sense at all to have it there.

Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
2014-12-13 10:01:31 +01:00
Luyao Huang
ce1d2f6315 conf: goto error when value of max_sectors is too large
Output error when we try to set a too large max_sectors.
Just like queues and cmd_per_lun here.

Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
2014-12-12 07:21:45 +01:00
Ján Tomko
15abebdecb Ignore CPU features without a model for host-passthrough
This fixes reverting to snapshots created by older libvirt
and allows libvirt not to lose track of a domain that
has this in its live status XML (such as a domain
restored from managedsave)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1030793
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151885
2014-12-11 12:03:36 +01:00
Ján Tomko
dd324bb270 Do not format CPU features without a model
For host-passthrough CPU we don't honor the CPU
features specified in the XML, but we allow
outputting them via the UPDATE_CPU flag for dumpxml,
this gives user a rough idea of what features the CPU
might have.

After restoring a managedsave'd domain, the features
might end up in the live status XML (in /var/run) without
the model. This XML cannot be parsed by the daemon after
restart and the domain might disappear.

This fix skips formatting the features for HOST_PASSTHROUGH
when UPDATE_CPU is not specified, so the newly restored domains
and newly created snapshots won't be affected.

Note: this doesn't fix existing snapshots or already restored
running domains.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1030793
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151885
2014-12-11 12:03:36 +01:00
Martin Kletzander
47a3dd46ea conf: Ignore device address for guestfwd channel
It make no sense at all to have it there.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
2014-12-10 11:21:31 +01:00
Luyao Huang
a23fefdf46 conf: forbid negative number in address(like controller, bus, slot...)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171582

When we edit a negative controller address number to a device,
some of them will auto generate a controller with invalid index
number. This will make guest disappear after restart libvirtd.
Instead of allowing negative number for controller index, we
should forbid negative number in these place (we did this before,
but after f18c02ec, virStrToLong_ui changed to allow negative
number). Therefore switch to virStrToLong_uip in these places.

Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
2014-12-09 11:35:27 +01:00
Kyle DeFrancia
5adc6031fa network: don't allow multiple dhcp sections
This resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907779

A <dhcp> element can exist in only one IPv4 address and one IPv6
address per network.  This patch enforces that in virNetworkUpdate.
2014-12-08 15:41:09 -05:00
Laine Stump
33f4a8bc03 network: store network macTableManager setting in NetDef actual object
At the time that the network driver allocates a connection to a
network, the tap device that will be used hasn't yet been created -
that will be done later by qemu (or lxc or whoever) - but if the
network has macTableManager='libvirt', then when we do get around to
creating the tap device, we will need to add an entry for it to the
network bridge's fdb (forwarding database) *and* turn off learning and
unicast_flood for that tap device in the bridge's sysfs settings. This
means that qemu needs to know both the bridge name as well as the
setting of macTableManager, so we either need to create a new API to
retrieve that info, or just pass it back in the ActualNetDef that is
created during networkAllocateActualDevice. We choose the latter
method, since it's already done for the bridge device, and it has the
side effect of making the information available in domain status.

(NB: in the future, I think that the tap device should actually be
created by networkAllocateActualDevice(), as that will solve several
other problems, but that is a battle for another day, and this
information will still be useful outside the network driver)
2014-12-08 14:45:09 -05:00
Laine Stump
a360912179 network: save bridge name in ActualNetDef when actualType==network too
When the actualType of a virDomainNetDef is "network", it means that
we are connecting to a libvirt-managed network (routed, natted, or
isolated) which does use a bridge device (created by libvirt). In the
past we have required drivers such as qemu to call the public API to
retrieve the bridge name in this case (even though it is available in
the NetDef's ActualNetDef if the actualType is "bridge" (i.e., an
externally-created bridge that isn't managed by libvirt). There is no
real reason for this difference, and as a matter of fact it
complicates things for qemu. Also, there is another bridge-related
attribute (macTableManager) that will need to be available in both
cases, so this makes things consistent.

In order to avoid problems when restarting libvirtd after an update
from an older version that *doesn't* store the network's bridgename in
the ActualNetDef, we also need to put it in place during
networkNotifyActualDevice() (this function is run for each interface
of each domain whenever libvirtd is restarted).

Along with making the bridge name available in the internal object, it
is also now reported in the <source> element of the <interface> state
XML (or the <actual> subelement in the internally-stored format).

The one oddity about this change is that usually there is a separate
union for every different "type" in a higher level object (e.g. in the
case of a virDomainNetDef there are separate "network" and "bridge"
members of the union that pivots on the type), but in this case
network and bridge types both have exactly the same attributes, so the
"bridge" member is used for both type==network and type==bridge.
2014-12-08 14:43:42 -05:00
Laine Stump
40961978ee conf: new network bridge device attribute macTableManager
The macTableManager attribute of a network's bridge subelement tells
libvirt how the bridge's MAC address table (used to determine the
egress port for packets) is managed. In the default mode, "kernel",
management is left to the kernel, which usually determines entries in
part by turning on promiscuous mode on all ports of the bridge,
flooding packets to all ports when the correct destination is unknown,
and adding/removing entries to the fdb as it sees incoming traffic
from particular MAC addresses.  In "libvirt" mode, libvirt turns off
learning and flooding on all the bridge ports connected to guest
domain interfaces, and adds/removes entries according to the MAC
addresses in the domain interface configurations. A side effect of
turning off learning and unicast_flood on the ports of a bridge is
that (with Linux kernel 3.17 and newer), the kernel can automatically
turn off promiscuous mode on one or more of the bridge's ports
(usually only the one interface that is used to connect the bridge to
the physical network). The result is better performance (because
packets aren't being flooded to all ports, and can be dropped earlier
when they are of no interest) and slightly better security (a guest
can still send out packets with a spoofed source MAC address, but will
only receive traffic intended for the guest interface's configured MAC
address).

The attribute looks like this in the configuration:

  <network>
    <name>test</name>
    <bridge name='br0' macTableManager='libvirt'/>
    ...

This patch only adds the config knob, documentation, and test
cases. The functionality behind this knob is added in later patches.
2014-12-08 14:41:37 -05:00
John Ferlan
1725a468f6 Replace virStreamFree with virObjectUnref
Since virStreamFree will call virObjectUnref anyway, let's just use that
directly so as to avoid the possibility that we inadvertently clear out
a pending error message when using the public API.
2014-12-02 11:03:41 -05:00
John Ferlan
adbbff5fb7 Replace virStoragePoolFree with virObjectUnref
Since virStoragePoolFree will call virObjectUnref anyway, let's just use that
directly so as to avoid the possibility that we inadvertently clear out
a pending error message when using the public API.
2014-12-02 11:03:40 -05:00