Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 0/3] qemu: make runtime validation of NetDefs more consistent

There is some validation of NetDefs (<interface>) that can't be done until runtime, due to not knowing the exact configuration until that time. This needs to happen in 3 places: 1) in the qemu commandline when a new guest is started, 2) when an <interface> is hotplugged, and 3) when an <interface> is updated. Until now, there some (but not all) validation copy-pasted between (1) and (2), and none of that was present for (3). These patches move all the validation from (1) (which is the most complete) into a separate function, and then call that function from all three places, so the exact same validation is done in all cases. (These patches are a followup to a patch I sent *long* ago in a naive attempt to fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1502754 - my original patch did fix the problem when starting a guest with an invalid <interface> config, but not when hotplugging or updating such an interface.) NB: I noticed that if someone tries to specify <bandwidth> for an interface type that doesn't support it, we only give a warning, not an error, due to a fear that there are existing management apps that add <bandwidth> to all types of interfaces, and we don't want them to suddenly fail to run (I got this info from the BZ associated with the commit that added the warning). This seems to me to be going a bit too far - I think that (at least upstream) we should turn this into an error, and let the regression testing of said management apps catch the behavior change so they can fix their code. (insert Kermit-drinking-coffee meme here)

Laine Stump (3): conf: make arg to virDomainNetGetActualVirtPortProfile() a const qemu: move runtime netdev validation into a separate function qemu: call common NetDef validation for hotplug and device update src/conf/domain_conf.c | 2 +- src/conf/domain_conf.h | 2 +- src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 52 +-------------------------- src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/qemu/qemu_domain.h | 4 +++ src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 32 +++++------------ 6 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)