On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Apollon Oikonomopoulos
<[email protected]> wrote:

> This patch introduces network configuration for KVM in Ganeti.
>
> There are three problems with having KVM perform network configuration via 
> ifup
> scripts:
>  a) Ganeti never gets to know the tap interface that is associated with an
>     instance's NIC
>  b) Migration of routed instances will cause network problems because the
>     incoming KVM side configures the network as soon as it is spawned and not
>     as soon as the migration finishes. This means that all routing
>     configuration will be present in both, primary and secondary, nodes at the
>     same time, possibly causing network disruption during the migration.
>  c) We never get to know if the network configuration succeeded or not.
>
> This patch moves network configuration from KVM to Ganeti, using KVM's ability
> to receive already open tap devices as file descriptors.
>
> _WriteNetScript is removed from hv_kvm.py, together with its unit tests.
>
> Minor modifications are made to _ExecKVMRuntime to handle tap device
> initialization. NIC <-> tap associations are stored under a new directory,
> _ROOT_DIR/nic in a file-per-nic fashion.
>
> The end-user semantics remain the same: The user can override the network
> configuration by providing _KVM_NET_SCRIPT. If this is not present or
> executable, the default constants.KVM_IFUP script is run.
>
> Signed-off-by: Apollon Oikonomopoulos <[email protected]>

LGTM

Thanks,

Guido

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