Bug 1584651
| Summary: | RFE: iface-dumpxml should include all active and --inactive conifg | ||||||
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| Product: | [Community] Virtualization Tools | Reporter: | ricky.tigg | ||||
| Component: | libvirt | Assignee: | Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | agedosier, berrange, clalancette, crobinso, itamar, jforbes, laine, libvirt-maint, ricky.tigg, veillard | ||||
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2024-12-17 12:49:57 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
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I don't think we will be adding a mode to virsh to output prettier info than XML... virsh isn't really the place for those types of things, it's largely just a dumb tool around libvirt APIs, which only returns this data in XML format If I recall iface/netcf APIs do have an annoying habit of requiring two commands to get all data about an interface: 'iface-dumpxml' and 'iface-dumpxml --inactive'. Does the latter command show you onboot status? If not virt-manager might just be reflecting the default value here virsh # iface-list --all
Name State MAC Address
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enp0s25 active 00:24:e8:cc:f3:27
lo active 00:00:00:00:00:00
wlp12s0 inactive 66:42:be:aa:52:8f
virsh # iface-dumpxml --inactive enp0s25
<interface type='ethernet' name='enp0s25'>
<start mode='onboot'/>
<protocol family='ipv4'>
<dhcp/>
</protocol>
<mac address='00:24:e8:cc:f3:27'/>
</interface>
It appears that the purpose of option '--inactive' along with the command 'iface-dumpxml' is named inadequately since it allows for the validation of an active interface and even returns an output. Outputs resulting from commands 'iface-dumpxml' and 'iface-dumpxml --inactive' do not achieve output illustrated in attachment 1446243 [details] even combined together; Mode 'Static' regarding IPv6 is still missing. Obviously a command that combines both CLI outputs would be appropriate.
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Created attachment 1446243 [details] Sample – virt-manager v. 1.5.1-1 – enp0s25 interface Enhancements request – Noticeable: – Outputs resulting from 'iface-dumpxml <network_interface>' are incomplete. – Outputs associated to network interfaces to be available in a non-xml format in order to improve readability. Version-Release number of component: libvirt-client.x86_64 4.1.0-2.fc28 @fedora Actual results (e.g target: enp0s25): virsh # iface-dumpxml enp0s25 <interface type='ethernet' name='enp0s25'> <protocol family='ipv4'> <ip address='192.168.0.3' prefix='24'/> </protocol> <protocol family='ipv6'> <ip address='2a02:2788:7c8:4dd:224:e8ff:fecc:f327' prefix='64'/> <ip address='fe80::224:e8ff:fecc:f327' prefix='64'/> </protocol> <link speed='1000' state='up'/> <mac address='00:24:e8:cc:f3:27'/> </interface> Improved results: All information produced by virt-manager component (virt-manager.noarch 1.5.1-1.fc28 @fedora) and then visible in Virtual Machine Manager –attachment– to be as well present from above virsh output. For instance mentions of 'onboot','DHCP', 'wired'. Additional info: Interactive virsh run. Active system language: Finnish.