Re: [Libvir] Virtual networking (not the rathole thread :-)

On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 22:28 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:06:18PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:

> > Virtual Networks will be implemented in libvirt. First, there will be an > > XML description of Virtual Networks e.g.: > > > > <network id="0"> > > <name>Foo</name> > > <uuid>596a5d2171f48fb2e068e2386a5c413e</uuid> > > <listen address="172.31.0.5" port="1234" /> > > <connections> > > <connection address="172.31.0.6" port="4321" /> > > </conections> > > <dhcp enabled="true"> > > <ip address="10.0.0.1" > > netmask="255.255.255.0" > > start="10.0.0.128" > > end="10.0.0.254" /> > > </dhcp> > > <forwarding enabled="true"> > > <incoming default="deny"> > > <allow port="123" domain="foobar" destport="321" /> > > </incoming> > > <outgoing default="allow"> > > <deny port="25" /> > > </outgoing> > > </forwarding> > > <network> > > Got to also think how we connect guest domains to the virtual network. Right, further on in the mail I said: * Where is the connection between domains and networks in either the API or the XML format? How is a domain associated with a network? You put a bridge name in the <network> definition and use that in the domains <interface> definition? Or you put the network name in the interface definition and have libvirt look up the bridge name when creating the guest? > Currently we just have something really simple like > > <interface type="bridge"> > <source bridge='xenbr0'/> > <mac address='00:11:22:33:44:55'/> > </interface> > > I guess we've probably want to refer to the UUID of the network to map > it into the guest. Well, the UUID isn't much good if you can't map it. So, it would probably be the name and libvirt URI, right?