On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:33 PM, dennis jenkins <dennis.jenkins.75@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com
wrote:
** On 04/16/2012 03:12 PM, dennis jenkins wrote:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Stefan Berger < stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
This series of patches adds DHCP snooping support to libvirt's nwfilter subsystem.
Stefan, David,
Thank you very much for this functionality. As a side-effect, it solves a problem that I needed addressed: namely, to know via Sys-Virt, the IP address associated with a virtual machine (without having to grovel through the DHCP lease file, out of band).
Dennis,
that's great to hear. Did you test them?
Stefan
Not yet. I run Gentoo Linux, and I try to keep my system really clean by not having manually installed packages. However, if you would like some independent testing, I can tinker with it. I have to figure out the ins and outs of GIT first, though. I do my own stuff with SVN and have not learned git yet.
The latest libvirt in Gentoo is version "0.9.10-r4". Ignoring the "-r4", 9.10 is about 2 months old, correct? So I might be waiting a while for this patch to make it to my portage tree.
Is there a specific git command line that I should use to pull a specific libvirt code set, or should I just go for the head / bleeding edge?
Stefan,
There is a potential bug [1] in the Gentoo package that tracks the libvirt git repository. I will wait a few days for the Gentoo folks to sort it out. If not, I will remove the Gentoo libvirt package and install the latest from git manually. I intend to test this feature and provide feedback for you. Again, thank you for this feature. I understand that your implementation is to address a network security concern. I intend to expand to apache/mod_perl/Sys-Virt/libvirt management tool to concurrently monitor QEMU and LXC. It would be nice if I could get the IP address for each virtual system in a uniform way. I do not know if this is a feasible feature to request. I will already have to work around the differences between QEMU and LXC in code, so this isn't a huge deal. Just a suggestion for a possible future feature. [1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7015930.html#7015930