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Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the
virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It
includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware
vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER
Hypervisor.
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When the bridge device for a network has macTableManager='libvirt' the intent is that all kernel management of the bridge's MAC table (Forwarding Database, or fdb, in the case of a Linux Host Bridge) be disabled, with libvirt handling updates to the table instead. The setup required for the bridge itself is: 1) set the "vlan_filtering" property of the bridge device to 1. 2) If the bridge has a "Dummy" tap device used to set a fixed MAC address on the bridge (which is always the case for a bridge created by libvirt, and never the case for a bridge created by the host system network config), turn off learning and unicast_flood on this tap (this is needed even though this tap is never IFF_UP, because the kernel ignores the IFF_UP flag of devices when using their settings to automatically decide whether or not to turn off promiscuous mode for any attached device). (1) is done both for libvirt-created/managed bridges, and for bridges that are created by the host system config, while (2) is done only for bridges created by libvirt (i.e. for forward modes of nat, routed, and isolated bridges) There is no attempt to turn vlan_filtering off when destroying the network because in the case of a libvirt-created bridge, the bridge is about to be destroyed anyway, and in the case of a system bridge, if the other devices attached to the bridge could operate properly before destroying libvirt's network object, they will continue to operate properly (this is similar to the way that libvirt will enable ip_forwarding whenever a routed/natted network is started, but will never attempt to disable it if they are stopped). |
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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>