Bug 585478
| Summary: | RFE: VDE: Add support for VDE(2) as a virtual network backend impl | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Community] Virtualization Tools | Reporter: | Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+tools> | ||||||
| Component: | libvirt | Assignee: | Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | |||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | berrange, brot+redhatbt, crobinso, ebersac, micha, tom.prince, tsmetana, xen-maint | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | All | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2015-10-11 16:35:12 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 636029 | ||||||||
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Created attachment 627200 [details] Patch adding vde support to libvirt (against 0.10.2) This basicallay forward ports the patch origanally posted https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-January/msg00404.html A followup message to that suggested that this would be better handled by using vde to handle the network definition for user virtual machines. While I think that is also worthwhile, I think this is also beneficial. For example, a priveledged user could create a vde_switch with access to the outside world, and allow users in a given group to create virtual machines that connect to that switch. Created attachment 627212 [details]
Corresponding patch to virtinst-0.600.3
vde seems quite dead upstream these days. and given that there's been lots of work put in to making libvirt support openvswitch, there's already an alternative there. so I don't think it makes sense to explicitly track this anymore. closing |
Description of problem: There is currently no support for VDE2 networked machines. Eg, when running: virsh domxml-from-native qemu-argv run.argc with a run.argc file containing: kvm -nographic -m 1024 -hda /path/to/img.qcow2 \ -net nic,vlan=0,model=rtl8139,macaddr=52:54:16:32:43:21 \ -net vde,vlan=0,group=vde2-net,mode=0770,sock=/var/run/qemu-vde-ctl the second -net lines gets silently dropped from the generated XML file. I'm sure this is not the only aspect of VDE networking that isn't supported.