----- "Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues" <l...@redhat.com> wrote:

> I am taking some time to review your patches, and likewise you
> mentioned revising my unattended patchset, it's going to take
> sometime
> for me to go trough all the code. Starting with the low hanging
> fruit,
> this little setup script could be turned into a python script as
> well!

qemu-ifup is a traditional qemu script. The one in this patch is
almost identical to the ones included in KVM releases.
Also, it's meant to be modified by the user -- the user may want to
replace the 'brctl show | awk' expression with the name of a bridge,
especially if the host has more than one. I think a python script
will be awkward to modify.
Also, traditionally this script resides in /etc, and this one is
provided only in case the user doesn't have a better one in /etc.
The script in /etc is normally a bash script.

I have no problem with rewriting this as a python script -- I just
think it's more natural to keep this one in bash.
In python it would look something like:

import sys, os, commands
switch = commands.getoutput("/usr/sbin/brctl show").split()[1].split()[0]
os.system("/sbin/ifconfig %s 0.0.0.0 up" % sys.argv[1])
os.system("/usr/sbin/brctl addif %s %s" % (switch, sys.argv[1]))

There's nothing 'pythonic' about this. It looks like it should be a
bash script. It also looks simpler in bash. Anyway, if you like this
better, or if you think the 'python only' policy should apply here,
no problem.

> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Michael Goldish<mgold...@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > The script adds a requested interface to an existing bridge.  It is
> meant to be
> > used by qemu when running in TAP mode.
> >
> > Note: the user is responsible for setting up the bridge before
> running any
> > tests.  This can be done with brctl or in any manner that is
> appropriate for
> > the host OS.  It can be done inside 'qemu-ifup' as well, but this
> sample script
> > doesn't do it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Goldish <mgold...@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  client/tests/kvm/qemu-ifup |    8 ++++++++
> >  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 client/tests/kvm/qemu-ifup
> >
> > diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/qemu-ifup
> b/client/tests/kvm/qemu-ifup
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..bcd9a7a
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/client/tests/kvm/qemu-ifup
> > @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> > +#!/bin/sh
> > +
> > +# The following expression selects the first bridge listed by
> 'brctl show'.
> > +# Modify it to suit your needs.
> > +switch=$(/usr/sbin/brctl show | awk 'NR==2 { print $1 }')
> > +
> > +/sbin/ifconfig $1 0.0.0.0 up
> > +/usr/sbin/brctl addif ${switch} $1
> > --
> > 1.5.4.1
> >
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