Re: [libvirt] [PATCH V10 0/7] Add DHCP snooping support to nwfilter

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:33 PM, dennis jenkins <dennis.jenkins.75(a)gmail.com > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Stefan Berger <stefanb(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com > > >> ** >> On 04/16/2012 03:12 PM, dennis jenkins wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Stefan Berger < >> stefanb(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>> >>> This series of patches adds DHCP snooping support to libvirt's >>> nwfilter subsystem. >>> >>> >> Stefan, David, >> >> Thank you very much for this functionality. As a side-effect, it >> solves a problem that I needed addressed: namely, to know via Sys-Virt, the >> IP address associated with a virtual machine (without having to grovel >> through the DHCP lease file, out of band). >> >> >> Dennis, >> >> that's great to hear. Did you test them? >> >> Stefan >> >> > Not yet. I run Gentoo Linux, and I try to keep my system really clean by > not having manually installed packages. However, if you would like some > independent testing, I can tinker with it. I have to figure out the ins > and outs of GIT first, though. I do my own stuff with SVN and have not > learned git yet. > > The latest libvirt in Gentoo is version "0.9.10-r4". Ignoring the "-r4", > 9.10 is about 2 months old, correct? So I might be waiting a while for > this patch to make it to my portage tree. > > Is there a specific git command line that I should use to pull a specific > libvirt code set, or should I just go for the head / bleeding edge? > > Stefan, There is a potential bug [1] in the Gentoo package that tracks the libvirt git repository. I will wait a few days for the Gentoo folks to sort it out. If not, I will remove the Gentoo libvirt package and install the latest from git manually. I intend to test this feature and provide feedback for you. Again, thank you for this feature. I understand that your implementation is to address a network security concern. I intend to expand to apache/mod_perl/Sys-Virt/libvirt management tool to concurrently monitor QEMU and LXC. It would be nice if I could get the IP address for each virtual system in a uniform way. I do not know if this is a feasible feature to request. I will already have to work around the differences between QEMU and LXC in code, so this isn't a huge deal. Just a suggestion for a possible future feature. [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7015930.html#7015930