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The network hook script gets called whenever an interface is plugged into or unplugged from a network, but even though the full XML of both the network and the domain is included, there is no reasonable way to determine what exact resources the plugged interface is using: 1) Prior to a recent patch which modified the status XML of interfaces to include the information about actual hardware resources used, it would be possible to scan through the domain XML output sent to the hook, and from there find the correct interface, but that interface definition would not include any runtime info (e.g. bandwidth or vlan taken from a portgroup, or which physdev was used in case of a macvtap network). 2) After the patch modifying the status XML of interfaces, the network name would no longer be included in the domain XML, so it would be completely impossible to determine which interface was the one being plugged. To solve that problem, this patch includes a single <interface> element at the beginning of the XML sent to the network hook for "plugged" and "unplugged" (just inside <hookData>) that is the status XML of the interface being plugged. This XML will include all info gathered from the chosen network and portgroup. NB: due to hardcoded spaces in all of the device *Format() functions, the <interface> element inside the <hookData> will be indented by 6 spaces rather than 2. I had intended to fix this, but it turns out that to make virDomainNetDefFormat() indentation relative, I would have to do the same to virDomainDeviceInfoFormat(), and that function is called from 19 places - making that a prerequisite of this patch would cause too many merge difficulties if we needed to backport network hooks, so I chose to ignore the problem here and fix the problem for *all* devices in a followup later.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>