Re: [Libvir] Inconsistent networking between Xen & QEMU

2007-03-09 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 19:38 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:17:04PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 18:52 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 04:44:17PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > > > > > Rather you sug

Re: [Libvir] Inconsistent networking between Xen & QEMU

2007-03-09 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:17:04PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 18:52 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 04:44:17PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > > > Rather you suggest that if people want to use bridging, then they > > > should modify the d

Re: [Libvir] Inconsistent networking between Xen & QEMU

2007-03-09 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 18:52 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 04:44:17PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > Rather you suggest that if people want to use bridging, then they > > should modify the default network XML config by hand and not have the > > latter option in t

Re: [Libvir] Inconsistent networking between Xen & QEMU

2007-03-09 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 04:44:17PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 14:40 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:27:02PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > > > > > As I said in another mail, the way I'd imagined virt-install working > > > would be tha

Re: [Libvir] Inconsistent networking between Xen & QEMU

2007-03-09 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 14:40 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:27:02PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 03:03 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > > > Anyway, we now have two different syntaxes in the XML for defining what > > > is more or less t

Re: [Libvir] Inconsistent networking between Xen & QEMU

2007-03-09 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 04:20:58PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 14:32 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:27:02PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 03:03 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > > > For the reverse Xen wil

Re: [Libvir] Inconsistent networking between Xen & QEMU

2007-03-09 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 14:32 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:27:02PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 03:03 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > For the reverse Xen will tell us what bridge device a > > > guest is using, and we can reverse

Re: [Libvir] Inconsistent networking between Xen & QEMU

2007-03-09 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:27:02PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 03:03 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > Anyway, we now have two different syntaxes in the XML for defining what > > is more or less the same thing which is a real PITA for the tools. It > > is useful to h

Re: [Libvir] Inconsistent networking between Xen & QEMU

2007-03-09 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:27:02PM +, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 03:03 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > To improve life for the tools though I'd like to do two things as a high > > priority > > > > - Support managed networks in Xen - we can simply lookup the bridge >

Re: [Libvir] Inconsistent networking between Xen & QEMU

2007-03-09 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 03:03 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > Anyway, we now have two different syntaxes in the XML for defining what > is more or less the same thing which is a real PITA for the tools. It > is useful to have the distinct representations - one is for 'managed' > bridges, and the

[Libvir] Inconsistent networking between Xen & QEMU

2007-03-08 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
In Xen it is possible to configure a VIF to enslave with an arbitrary bridge device using a fragment of XML like: In this example I've enslaved to xenbr0 which is created by the Xen networking script, but this will work with any bridge device really. In QEMU the only brid