Re: [libvirt] IPv6 migration

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 19:40:52 +0100, Ján Tomko wrote: > Hello. > > We can only tell QEMU on the destination to listen either on IPv6 or on > IPv4. > > If we're supplied with a numeric v6 address, that's the only thing we > need to know to set the listen address to [::]. > > For hostnames, we can either assume this based on how it resolves by > default on the destination (we keep trying all the resolved addresses on > the source, but this might break a few cases), which John found > disgusting, so that leaves user input: > > How about a VIR_DOMAIN_MIGRATE_IPV6 flag, depending on which we set the > listen address on the destination and creating a new function > virNetSocketNewConnectTCPHints, where we would add IPv4/IPv6 hint > based on the presence/absence of this flag? Yeah, I think using an explicit flag would be the best approach. As we learnt several times, implementing automagic behavior is too fragile and leads to ugly code and confusion. IIUC, we would tell QEMU to listen on :: iff either migrateuri uses IPv6 address explicitly or VIR_DOMAIN_MIGRATE_IPV6 flag is set. In all other cases, 0.0.0.0 address will be passed to QEMU. In other words, unless a user takes an explicit action, migration will use IPv4 regardless on libvirt version.