It can be safely removed from the VMX, VMWare will still boot the
machine and once another ethernet is added it is updated in the VMX to
zero. So do not require it and default to zero too since this part of
the XML is done as best effort and it is mentioned even in our
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com>
---
src/vmx/vmx.c | 2 +-
tests/vmx2xmldata/ethernet-vds-no-portid.vmx | 10 ++++++++
tests/vmx2xmldata/ethernet-vds-no-portid.xml | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 tests/vmx2xmldata/ethernet-vds-no-portid.vmx
create mode 100644 tests/vmx2xmldata/ethernet-vds-no-portid.xml
diff --git a/src/vmx/vmx.c b/src/vmx/vmx.c
index f4182bc5184c..d90b41d2ad14 100644
--- a/src/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/src/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -2901,7 +2901,7 @@ virVMXParseEthernet(virConf *conf, int controller, virDomainNetDef
**def)
portId_name,
&(*def)->data.vds.port_id,
0,
- false) < 0 ||
+ true) < 0 ||
virVMXGetConfigLong(conf,
connectionId_name,
&(*def)->data.vds.connection_id,
diff --git a/tests/vmx2xmldata/ethernet-vds-no-portid.vmx
b/tests/vmx2xmldata/ethernet-vds-no-portid.vmx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7761accb3abc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vmx2xmldata/ethernet-vds-no-portid.vmx
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+config.version = "8"
+virtualHW.version = "4"
+ethernet0.present = "true"
+ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000e"
+ethernet0.addressType = "vpx"
+ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:50:56:87:65:43"
+ethernet0.dvs.switchId = "50 34 26 b2 94 e9 3b 16-1d 68 87 bf ff 4a 54 40"
+ethernet0.dvs.portgroupId = "dvportgroup-1285"
+ethernet0.dvs.connectionId = "408217997"
+displayName = "test"
diff --git a/tests/vmx2xmldata/ethernet-vds-no-portid.xml
b/tests/vmx2xmldata/ethernet-vds-no-portid.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..60fd9c99feb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vmx2xmldata/ethernet-vds-no-portid.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<domain type='vmware'>
+ <name>test</name>
+ <uuid>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</uuid>
+ <memory unit='KiB'>32768</memory>
+ <currentMemory unit='KiB'>32768</currentMemory>
+ <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
+ <os>
+ <type arch='i686'>hvm</type>
+ </os>
+ <clock offset='utc'/>
+ <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
+ <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
+ <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
+ <devices>
+ <interface type='vds'>
+ <mac address='00:50:56:87:65:43' type='generated'/>
+ <source switchid='503426b2-94e9-3b16-1d68-87bfff4a5440'
portid='0' portgroupid='dvportgroup-1285'
connectionid='408217997'/>
+ <model type='e1000e'/>
+ </interface>
+ <video>
+ <model type='vmvga' vram='4096' primary='yes'/>
+ </video>
+ </devices>
+</domain>
--
2.45.0