Hi Rich, On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 20:54 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
What this patch allows you to do is to create a table of IP address to host (defined by its hardware / MAC address) for each virtual network. Optionally you can also assign a hostname. When a host starts up and requests an IP address through DHCP, if it is in this table then it gets the fixed IP address from the table and, optionally, a fixed hostname.
Four new API calls are added. Two are required to list the contents of the mapping table. Two more allow you to add and delete a mapping.
The mapping table is semi-permanent. It is stored in /var/lib/libvirt/hosts-<networkname>.conf and survives across libvirtd restarts.
Cool stuff, but why isn't this just an addition to the network's XML definition? Cheers, Mark.