libvirt/src
Laine Stump 013427e6e7 network driver: don't send default route to clients on isolated networks
Normally dnsmasq will send a default route (the address of the host in
the network definition) to any client requesting an address via
DHCP. On an isolated network this makes no sense, as we have iptables
to prevent any traffic going out via that interface, so anything sent
that way would be dropped anyway.

This extra/unusable default route becomes problematic if you have
setup a guest with multiple network interfaces, with one connected to
an isolated network and another that provides connectivity to the
outside (example - one interface directly connecting to a physical
interface via macvtap, with a second connected to an isolated network
so that the host and guest can communicate (macvtap doesn't support
guest<->host communication without an external switch that supports
vepa, or reflecting all traffic back)). In this case, if the guest
chooses the default route of the isolated network, the guest will not
be able to get network traffic beyond the host.

To prevent dnsmasq from sending a default route, you can tell it to
send 0 bytes of data for the default route option (option number 3)
with --dhcp-option=3 (normally the data to send for the option would
follow the option number; no extra data means "don't send this option").

I have checked on RHEL5 (a good representative of the oldest supported
libvirt platforms) and its version of dnsmasq (2.45) does support
--dhcp-option, so this shouldn't create any compatibility problems.
2011-03-14 08:24:23 -04:00
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conf qemu: Support vram for video of qxl type 2011-03-06 22:00:27 +08:00
cpu hash: make virHashFree more free-like 2011-02-21 08:27:02 -07:00
esx libvirt: implements virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters 2011-03-10 17:53:33 -07:00
interface
lxc libvirt: implements virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters 2011-03-10 17:53:33 -07:00
network network driver: don't send default route to clients on isolated networks 2011-03-14 08:24:23 -04:00
node_device maint: kill all remaining uses of old DEBUG macro 2011-02-21 08:46:52 -07:00
nwfilter fixes for several memory leaks 2011-03-04 09:52:12 -07:00
opennebula libvirt: implements virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters 2011-03-10 17:53:33 -07:00
openvz libvirt: implements virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters 2011-03-10 17:53:33 -07:00
phyp libvirt: implements virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters 2011-03-10 17:53:33 -07:00
qemu qemu: fix -global argument usage 2011-03-11 10:11:48 -07:00
remote remote-protocol: implement new BlkioParameters API 2011-03-10 17:54:12 -07:00
secret Put <stdbool.h> into internal.h so it is available everywhere 2011-02-24 12:04:06 +00:00
security build: avoid compiler warning on cygwin 2011-03-08 21:56:18 -07:00
storage Ignore backing file errors in FS storage pool 2011-03-11 09:54:44 -07:00
test libvirt: implements virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters 2011-03-10 17:53:33 -07:00
uml libvirt: implements virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters 2011-03-10 17:53:33 -07:00
util cgroup: allow fine-tuning of device ACL permissions 2011-03-09 11:35:36 -07:00
vbox libvirt: implements virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters 2011-03-10 17:53:33 -07:00
vmware libvirt: implements virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters 2011-03-10 17:53:33 -07:00
vmx Put <stdbool.h> into internal.h so it is available everywhere 2011-02-24 12:04:06 +00:00
xen libvirt: implements virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters 2011-03-10 17:53:33 -07:00
xenapi libvirt: implements virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters 2011-03-10 17:53:33 -07:00
xenxs Add support for multiple serial ports into the Xen driver 2011-02-25 11:33:27 -07:00
.gitignore util: add missing export 2010-10-12 09:42:18 -06:00
datatypes.c maint: kill all remaining uses of old DEBUG macro 2011-02-21 08:46:52 -07:00
datatypes.h Remove all object hashtable caches from virConnectPtr 2011-02-21 11:50:46 +00:00
driver.c maint: kill all remaining uses of old DEBUG macro 2011-02-21 08:46:52 -07:00
driver.h libvirt: implements virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters 2011-03-10 17:53:33 -07:00
fdstream.c build: avoid close, system 2011-01-29 10:36:45 -07:00
fdstream.h Put <stdbool.h> into internal.h so it is available everywhere 2011-02-24 12:04:06 +00:00
gnutls_1_0_compat.h
internal.h Put <stdbool.h> into internal.h so it is available everywhere 2011-02-24 12:04:06 +00:00
libvirt_bridge.syms Replace brSetInetAddress/brSetInetNetmask with brAddInetAddress 2010-12-23 15:53:26 -05:00
libvirt_daemon.syms
libvirt_driver_modules.syms
libvirt_internal.h
libvirt_linux.syms
libvirt_macvtap.syms Fix undefined symbol errors when macvtap support is disabled 2010-12-01 17:08:08 +01:00
libvirt_nwfilter.syms
libvirt_private.syms audit: also audit cgroup controller path 2011-03-09 10:19:17 -07:00
libvirt_public.syms libvirt: implements virDomain{Get,Set}BlkioParameters 2011-03-10 17:53:33 -07:00
libvirt_qemu.syms
libvirt_vmx.syms esx: Move VMX handling code out of the driver directory 2010-12-21 22:40:17 +01:00
libvirt-qemu.c maint: kill all remaining uses of old DEBUG macro 2011-02-21 08:46:52 -07:00
libvirt.c Add missing checks for read only connections 2011-03-14 10:56:28 +08:00
Makefile.am libvirtd: Remove indirect linking 2011-03-09 13:59:58 +01:00
nodeinfo.c Put <stdbool.h> into internal.h so it is available everywhere 2011-02-24 12:04:06 +00:00
nodeinfo.h
README Update src/README 2011-02-12 17:10:30 +01:00
remote_protocol-structs remote-protocol: implement new BlkioParameters API 2011-03-10 17:54:12 -07:00

       libvirt library code README
       ===========================

The directory provides the bulk of the libvirt codebase. Everything
except for the libvirtd daemon and client tools. The build uses a
large number of libtool convenience libraries - one for each child
directory, and then links them together for the final libvirt.so,
although some bits get linked directly to libvirtd daemon instead.

The files directly in this directory are supporting the public API
entry points & data structures.

There are two core shared modules to be aware of:

 * util/  - a collection of shared APIs that can be used by any
            code. This directory is always in the include path
            for all things built

 * conf/  - APIs for parsing / manipulating all the official XML
            files used by the public API. This directory is only
            in the include path for driver implementation modules

 * vmx/   - VMware VMX config handling (used by esx/ and vmware/)


Then there are the hypervisor implementations:

 * esx/          - VMware ESX and GSX support using vSphere API over SOAP
 * lxc/          - Linux Native Containers
 * opennebula/   - Open Nebula using XMLRPC
 * openvz/       - OpenVZ containers using cli tools
 * phyp/         - IBM Power Hypervisor using CLI tools over SSH
 * qemu/         - QEMU / KVM using qemu CLI/monitor
 * remote/       - Generic libvirt native RPC client
 * test/         - A "mock" driver for testing
 * uml/          - User Mode Linux
 * vbox/         - Virtual Box using native API
 * vmware/       - VMware Workstation and Player using the vmrun tool
 * xen/          - Xen using hypercalls, XenD SEXPR & XenStore
 * xenapi/       - Xen using libxenserver


Finally some secondary drivers that are shared for several HVs.
Currently these are used by LXC, OpenVZ, QEMU, UML and Xen drivers.
The ESX, OpenNebula, Power Hypervisor, Remote, Test & VirtualBox
drivers all implement the secondary drivers directly

 * cpu/          - CPU feature management
 * interface/    - Host network interface management
 * network/      - Virtual NAT networking
 * nwfilter/     - Network traffic filtering rules
 * node_device/  - Host device enumeration
 * secret/       - Secret management
 * security/     - Mandatory access control drivers
 * storage/      - Storage management drivers


Since both the hypervisor and secondary drivers can be built as
dlopen()able modules, it is *FORBIDDEN* to have build dependencies
between these directories. Drivers are only allowed to depend on
the public API, and the internal APIs in the util/ and conf/
directories