Re: [libvirt] [PATCH RFC] Add a virt-host-validate command to sanity check HV config

On 01/10/2012 12:33 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: In general this seems like a very useful idea, and this looks like a good start. I'm wondering how much networking-related stuff we can put in here. For example, lately it would have been useful to have a check looking for a system-wide dnsmasq instance listening on all interfaces. I also recall cases where iptables/ip6tables/radvd weren't installed properly/completely (this seems to usually happen on gentoo, due to its "build it yourself" nature). But of course that wouldn't signal a problem on a system that wasn't intending to have libvirt setup DHCP for the guests. (Oh, another check related to vhost - if the kernel/iptables version is "too low" (I would have to look up the exact versions), then vhost-net *shouldn't* be loaded if there are RHEL5 (and other older) guests using DHCP and getting addresses from a dhcp server on the host. But again, that's not *always* a problem.) (I've been thinking about some sort of program that could diagnose problems with the network plumbing of a guest (by looking at brctl/etc output, then doing a tcpdump of the vnetX, virbrY, and ethZ interfaces while attempting to ping in/out from the guest, and seeing how far the traffic went), but aside from the complexity created by needing to execute things on the guest, I anyway don't know how much concrete help that could give beyond saying "start looking here".)