Interface Pools and Passthrough mode: Current Method: The passthrough mode uses a macvtap “direct” connection to connect each guest to the network. The physical interface to be used is picked from among those listed in <interface> sub elements of the <forward> element. The current specification for <forward> extends to allow 0 or more <interface> sub-elements: Example: <forward mode='passthrough' dev='eth10'/> <interface dev='eth10'/> <interface dev='eth12'/> <interface dev='eth18'/> <interface dev='eth20'/> </forward> However with an ethernet card with 64 VF's or more, the above method gets tedious on the system. On the other hand, just parameterizing a string (eth%d) is inadequate, eg, when there are multiple non-contiguous ranges. Proposed Method: The 5 patches provided along with this introductory e-mail i) Introduce a structure to store the state of all the virtual functions attached to each physical function ii) Find a free virtual function given the physical function. The forward specification will hence only mention the physical function as the interface sub element: Example: <forward mode='passthrough' dev='eth2'/> <interface dev='eth2'/> </forward> Shradha Shah (5): Moving the declaration of _pciDevice and _pciDeviceList to pci.h Added function pciSysfsFile to enable access to the PCI SYSFS files. Adding functions virNetDevGetVirtualFunctions and virNetDevGetNetName virNetDevGetVirtualFunctions: Gets the BDF of all the Virtual Functions given a physical function virNetDevGetNetName: Gets the interface name of the PCI Device. Addition of a new device structure to store the state of a Virtual Function Modifications to the Physical Device Structure to store state of its Virtual Functions If a system has 64 or more VF's, it is quite tedious to mention each VF in the interface pool. The following modification find a Free VF given a Physical Function when mode=passthrough. We also save the state of each VF. Hence modifications to networkAllocateActualDevice, networkNotifyActualDevice and networkReleaseActualDevice were required. The following patch does just that. src/conf/network_conf.c | 19 ++++- src/conf/network_conf.h | 10 ++ src/network/bridge_driver.c | 208 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ src/util/pci.c | 52 ++++------- src/util/pci.h | 36 ++++++++ src/util/virnetdev.c | 89 ++++++++++++++++++ src/util/virnetdev.h | 10 ++ 7 files changed, 359 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-) -- 1.7.4.4