On 10/30/2012 02:28 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
I now realize that I am going to need to get into virsh net-update
since I am adding things to the xml specification and net-update will need to differentiate between dhcp4 and dhcp6 changes.
Another thought that occurs to me is whether there has any consideration been given having a "virsh net-restart" which would just restart dnsmasq and radvd. Typing stuff in for the command line of net-update is a little prone to typos. You can always put them in (temporary) files:-)
Wouldn't having net-edit and net-restart do what is intended for net-update. Maybe there is a way to have net-update do the equivalent of net-edit/net-restart. For example, if you only did "virsh net-update <network>" it would do it. Oh so close and yet so far.
I have given the man-page for net-update a closer reading and now realize that I can use a terporary file and that scratch one of my itches. As I read through that documentation I saw the --parent-index which allows you to select which <ip> definition you are changing. Oh boy, this looks good. I can use that to select if I am updating the ipv4 or ipv6 specification. Sounds good! Too bad it does not work that way. You check the family and if it is not ipv4, you quit. Going with a minimum change, I propose changing that test to allow ipv4 or ipv6. BTW, there seem to be a number of things that do not work in net-update. Aside from dns-host, is there anything else that is not there yet? Also, I am updating and re-basing my patches against v1.0.0-rc2. Is that a good choice for now? Gene Gene