[libvirt] [PATCH 0/5] macvtap support for Qemu/KVM VMs via libvirt

Hello! The following patches provide support for making the macvtap networking device type available to Qemu/KVM VMs. The patches rely on the macvtap driver that just became available through the Linux net-next tree (fixes still may be necessary) and make the device available to Qemu/KVM via a tap file descriptor similar to a 'regular' tap device. Following up on previous discussions, the libvirt patches allow using the following XML in the domain description to enable qemu network connectivity via this type of device: <interface type='direct'> <source dev='eth1' mode='vepa'/> <model type='virtio'/> </interface> The above XML indicates that eth1 is the Ethernet interface to link the macvtap device to and communicate to the network. As a consequence, libvirt will create an instance of a macvtap device, assign it the same MAC address as the VM's interface has and open a file descriptor of the associated character device /dev/tap%d and pass it via command line to Qemu/kvm. In the above XML the mode can be chosen as 'vepa', 'private' or 'bridge' and is by default set to 'vepa'(by the driver) if omitted. Attachment and detachment of macvtap to/from a running VM also works. Regards, Stefan