Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt + openvswitch, <parameters interfaceid='x'/> seems less-than-useful?

On 05/13/16 20:04, Laine Stump wrote: > On 05/13/2016 09:57 AM, Richard Harman wrote: >> I've debugged this, and I think the interfaceid stuff in network XML >> isn't doing much besides setting a custom interfaceid in an OpenVSwitch >> table that really has no effect on the operation of OpenVSwitch. I >> think the -- set Interface vnet0 "external-ids:iface-id="{uuid here}" >> command run by libvirt doesn't actually set the _uuid of a new >> interface. :( > I don't use Open vSwitch, but I was around when the support was added, > and reviewed the patches (which were authored by Kyle Mestery, whose > email has changed since then, so I'm not sure how to Cc him). My > understanding at the time was that the interfaceid was intended for > exactly the purpose that you say doesn't work (i.e. so that OVS itself > could recognize that interface as it appeared and disappeared at > different locations on the network). I would classify that as a bug, > but that's just my understanding as an OVS outsider. > Further evidence, now that I figured out how to dump the external-ids stuff in OVS: Here's the relevant ports of the domain XML: <domain type='kvm' id='5'> <name>cuckoo</name> <uuid>cb4903aa-eaf4-432d-aa57-e9f74f1c8b79</uuid> .... <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:f5:29:72'/> <source network='malware' bridge='malware0'/> <virtualport type='openvswitch'> <parameters interfaceid='23e982f3-f344-48a2-8bed-b584acb95616'/> </virtualport> <target dev='monitor0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <alias name='net2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08' function='0x0'/> </interface> .... cuckoo vm up: monitor0 _uuid is 969ef76c... # ovs-vsctl --columns=name,_uuid,external-ids list Interface | grep -A3 monitor0 name : "monitor0" _uuid : 969ef76c-c802-4e9f-97e0-9a06ce133252 external_ids : {attached-mac="52:54:00:f5:29:72", iface-id="23e982f3-f344-48a2-8bed-b584acb95616", iface-status=active, vm-id="cb4903aa-eaf4-432d-aa57-e9f74f1c8b79"} # cuckoo vm down: (no output, the interface has been deleted by libvirt) # ovs-vsctl --columns=name,_uuid,external-ids list Interface | grep -A3 monitor0 # I found this in my log, showing libvirt deleted the interface: ovs-vsctl[4590]: ovs|00001|vsctl|INFO|Called as ovs-vsctl --timeout=5 -- --if-exists del-port monitor0 cuckoo vm up again: uuid is now fb025df0... # ovs-vsctl --columns=name,_uuid,external-ids list Interface | grep -A3 monitor0 name : "monitor0" _uuid : fb025df0-d934-46d6-b9ed-314bc1de5ef3 external_ids : {attached-mac="52:54:00:f5:29:72", iface-id="23e982f3-f344-48a2-8bed-b584acb95616", iface-status=active, vm-id="cb4903aa-eaf4-432d-aa57-e9f74f1c8b79"} # Anyway, thanks for reading! Hopefully we'll get to the bottom of this, where I can keep my span port. :) In the mean time I'm going to go digging through the OVS source, specifically the ovs-vsctl command to see if an argument can be used to forcibly set the internal _uuid in OVS.