Re: [libvirt PATCH 00/28] native support for nftables in virtual network driver
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 09:57:15AM GMT, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 01:54:47AM -0700, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> Is there much of a difference between having an explicit noop backend
> that is checked for availability after all other ones, and simply not
> failing to initialize the driver if a backend can't be found?
I actually sent a patch for the latter last night
Awesome, thanks!
> I'm still unclear on how networking on FreeBSD could work at
all
> until now. Aren't the iptables rules needed for guest connectivity?
> Or did I misunderstand their purpose?
It wouldn't have worked, but the problem is that we now kill the
entire libvirtd startup, instead of successfully starting a (broken)
network driver. Both are broken, but now the brokenness has spread
to the bits that do matter.
I get that, it's just that I'd be extremely surprised to learn that
guest network connectivity hasn't worked on FreeBSD all this time.
Surely that can't be right! Roman, what am I missing?
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization