Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Basic support for VDE networking

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 04:12:57PM +0100, Renzo Davoli wrote: > I have seen several messages asking for VDE networking support. > There is an item also in your todo web page. > http://libvirt.org/todo.html > I have developed a patch to provide a basic support for VDE. > It defines and manages the syntax: > > <domain ....> > <device> > <interface type='vde'> > ... > <switch path='/tmp/vde.ctl'/> > </interface> > </device> > </domain> > > the switch tag can be omitted: vde uses the default switch. > I have tested the qemu/kvm support. > user-mode linux support is included but not tested yet. > libvirt vde support for virtualbox has not been coded yet (virtualbox > itself supports vde). I was actually thinking that VDE should be supported in a slightly different, more integrated manner. libvirt has a set of APIs for 'virtual networking'. When libvirt runs privileged, we make use of a isolated bridge device + ip forwarding/NAT for this. My plan was that when running unprivileged, we'd make use of VDE for the implementation instead of a bridge. eg, so you'd be able to create/delete/manage VDE daemon instances using the 'virsh net-XXX' command set. The guest domains would be connected to VDE using the existing <interface type='network'> syntax, and not expose any 'vde' syntax in the guest XML directly. I think letting apps manage VDE daemon instances via the libvirt APi would make this functionality much more friendly & useful