The current syntax when defining a NIC uses a pair of arguments, like this:

-net tap,vlan=0 -net nic,vlan=0,model=virtio

When using this pair, internally KVM will create a VLANState structure to send
ethernet frames between the guest NIC and the host tap device. This is
suboptimal and is going to be removed in the future. Plus, this combination
breaks vhost-net support.

The new syntax does not need the vlan craziness anymore, creating a direct 1:1
relationship between the backend device and the frontend device.

-netdev tap,id=netdev0 -device 
virtio-net-pci,mac=52:54:00:56:6c:55,netdev=netdev0

The current code does not verify if vhost_net is available before starting an
instance. All this tests are done verifying the KVM version installed on the
node.

Signed-off-by: Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho <[email protected]>
---
 lib/hypervisor/hv_kvm.py |   29 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/hypervisor/hv_kvm.py b/lib/hypervisor/hv_kvm.py
index 3314fe2..483d03f 100644
--- a/lib/hypervisor/hv_kvm.py
+++ b/lib/hypervisor/hv_kvm.py
@@ -721,6 +721,7 @@ class KVMHypervisor(hv_base.BaseHypervisor):
 
     kvm_cmd, kvm_nics, up_hvp = kvm_runtime
     up_hvp = objects.FillDict(conf_hvp, up_hvp)
+    _, v_major, v_min, _ = self._GetKVMVersion()
 
     # We know it's safe to run as a different user upon migration, so we'll use
     # the latest conf, from conf_hvp.
@@ -737,19 +738,33 @@ class KVMHypervisor(hv_base.BaseHypervisor):
       tap_extra = ""
       nic_type = up_hvp[constants.HV_NIC_TYPE]
       if nic_type == constants.HT_NIC_PARAVIRTUAL:
-        nic_model = "model=virtio"
+        # From version 0.12.0, kvm uses a new sintax for network configuration.
+        if (int(v_major) == 0 and int(v_min) >= 12) or int(v_major) > 0:
+          nic_model = "virtio-net-pci"
+        else:
+          nic_model = "virtio"
+
         if up_hvp[constants.HV_VHOST_NET]:
-          tap_extra = ",vhost=on"
+          # vhost_net is only available from version 0.13.0 or newer
+          if (int(v_major) == 0 and int(v_min) >= 13) or int(v_major) > 0:
+            tap_extra = ",vhost=on"
+          else:
+            raise errors.HypervisorError("vhost_net is configured"
+                                        " but it is not available")
       else:
-        nic_model = "model=%s" % nic_type
+        nic_model = nic_type
 
       for nic_seq, nic in enumerate(kvm_nics):
-        nic_val = "nic,vlan=%s,macaddr=%s,%s" % (nic_seq, nic.mac, nic_model)
         script = self._WriteNetScriptFile(instance, nic_seq, nic)
-        tap_val = "tap,vlan=%s,script=%s%s" % (nic_seq, script, tap_extra)
-        kvm_cmd.extend(["-net", nic_val])
-        kvm_cmd.extend(["-net", tap_val])
         temp_files.append(script)
+        if (int(v_major) == 0 and int(v_min) >= 12) or int(v_major) > 0:
+          nic_val = "%s,mac=%s,netdev=netdev%s" % (nic_model, nic.mac, nic_seq)
+          tap_val = "type=tap,id=netdev%s,script=%s%s" % (nic_seq, script, 
tap_extra)
+          kvm_cmd.extend(["-netdev", tap_val, "-device", nic_val])
+        else:
+          nic_val = "nic,vlan=%s,macaddr=%s,model=%s" % (nic_seq, nic.mac, 
nic_model)
+          tap_val = "tap,vlan=%s,script=%s" % (nic_seq, script)
+          kvm_cmd.extend(["-net", tap_val, "-net", nic_val])
 
     if incoming:
       target, port = incoming
-- 
1.7.2.3

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