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When I implemented passt support in libvirt, I saw the --mac-addr option on the passt commandline, immediately assumed that this was used for setting the guest interface's mac address somewhere within passt, and read no further. As a result, "--mac-addr" is always added to the passt commandline, specifying the setting from <mac addr='blah'/> in the guest's interface config. But as pointed out in this bugzilla comment: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2184967#c8 That is *not at all* what passt's --mac-addr option does. Instead, it is used to force the *remote* mac address for incoming traffic to a specific value. So setting --mac-addr results in all traffic on the interface having the same (the guest's) mac address for both source and destination in all traffic. Surprisingly, this still works, so nobody noticed it during testing. The proper thing is to not specify any mac address to passt - the remote MAC addresses can and should remain untouched, and the local MAC address will end up being known to passt just by the guest sending out packets with that MAC address. Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
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.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: