Re: [libvirt] [RFC] Reporting host interface status/statistics via netcf/libvirt, and listing active vs. inactive interfaces
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:12:36PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
I've already been working on incorporating physical host
interface
configuration into libvirt by way of using libnetcf on the backend. It's
becoming apparent that, in addition to modifying and reporting the
current configuration of interfaces, libvirt users also want to query
current status of each interface (up/down, possibly other flags,
packet/byte/error counts, current IP address, etc).
This function could be exposed in the libvirt API as something like:
int virInterfaceStatus|Info(virInterffacePtr iface,
virInterfaceStats|Info *info);
That is reasonable.
Any comments/ideas on this?
(One possible complication I can see is interfaces with multiple
associated IPs. On some platforms, each interface can have only a single
IPv4 and a single IPv6 address (more IPs == more interfaces), but on
others there can be multiples.)
IP address information should be in the XML, and indeed surely it is
already there in order to allow non-DHCP based IP address config
on interfaces ?
Daniel
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