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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)
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>