On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 03:44:03PM +0000, John Levon wrote:
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:27:31PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Allow no <source> for bridge interfaces
> >
> > Historically, it was allowed to specify a bridge interface without a
> > specific bridge source, in which case xend would choose one. Keep
> > compatible with this behaviour.
>
> ACK in principle, but this will allow the QEMU, OpenVZ & Xen XM drivers
> to potentially de-reference NULL when using the resulting parsed config
> since they assume that brname is compulsory for type=bridge.
I'll fix them up. Should the first two throw an error back? I'll also
add a comment explaining why we let it through.
Yeah, they don't support the idea of a 'default' bridge - its just a (bad)
artifact of Xen's vif-bridge script that really shouldn't be used if you
want reliable guest configs.
Daniel
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